DIRECTORY.] . HAMPTON. 197 the year 1878. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value population in 1901 was 1,143, of which 297 were in £150, with residence, in the gift of the vicar of Holy . 'rrinity, Ely, and held since 1888 by the Rev. Claude Post, Tel., Exp. Del. & Postal Order Office, Priekwillow. Drewitt Kingdon RA. of Keble College, Oxford. There -Albert GeOl'ge Edwards, subo-postmaster. Lett~rll is a Baptist chapel, erected in 1875, and one for Primi­ through Ely, received at 8 a.m. .& I p.m.; dispatched tive Methodists, erected in 1894. A parish room was at 10 a.m. & 5 p.m. Ely is the nearest money order erected in la88 by the vicar in the Vicarage garden, and offic& is used for parish gatherings and classes. An old build­ ing, formerly used as a Wesleyan chapel, and now known BURNT FEN, 4! miles distant, is a ham:et with a station as "The People's House," serves for meetings of a on the Ely and Thetford section 'Of the Great E'l1stern rail· religious and social character and contains a small way. St. James's mission church, built in 1891, at a cost library. Owing to exhaustive draining, the soil in this of £420, is an iron structure, consisting of chancel, nave district sinks nearly two inches yearly: the @chools and and aisles, and affording 250 sittings. vicarage and other houses are built on piles. Three steam Post & Postal Order Office, Burnt Fen.-Mrs. Elizabeth pUIIlping e~gines and many windmills a~ main1:e.ined Coleman, sub-postmistress. Letters through . for draining the fens; two engines are in the village and received at 9 a.m.; dispatched at 4.r5 p.m. Tbe­ one in Burnt Fen; the larger of the two former nearest money order office is at & the nearest. discharges 150 tons a minute into the ; telegraph office at Prickwillow, 4 miles distant the smaller an average of lIO tons, and that in Burnt Fen about 150 tons. 'rhe principal landowners are the Public Elementary Schools:- Ecclesiastical Commissioners; the Dean and Chapter of Mixed, built in the year 1863 by the Dean &; Chapter of Ely; George Edward Foster esq. of Brooklanas, Cam­ Ely &; the inhabitants, for 220 children; average at­ bridge; Joseph William Luddington esq. of Littleport; tendance, I30; Fredk. Ernest Carpenter, head. master Capt. Harold LUddington; Mr. Hanslip Long, of Shippea S. James' (mixed), Mildenhall load, Burnt Fen, erected Hill, Mr. Flanders Hopkin, of Padnal, and Mr. Cole in 1870, for 85 children; average attendance, ..00; Ambrose, of , Ely. The soil is fen; subsoil, Arlhur Laycock, master clay. The land, which is all fen, is chiefly arable. The Railway Station, Burnt Fen, William Goff, station master'

PRICKWILLOW. Goat Robert, farmer BURNT FEN. Collier Rev. Arthur B.A. (curate), Hamey Joseph, farmer OOMMERCIAL• Vicarage Hawkes Robert, farmer .Ambrose Joseph, farmer Edwardll Samuel Hill Hovell, farmer Bonnett George, Railway Lavern Hamey Mrs Hopkin Flanders, farmer, Lot's farm Cox Charles, farmer Hopkin Flanders, Padnal Hopkin J oseph, farmer Cucksey Alfred, farmer, Elderbe:rry' KingdQIl Rev. Claude Drewitt B.A. Howe Jas. thre8hing machine owner Daniels Joseph S. farmer (vicar). Vican~ Lane John, Waggon & Horses P.ll Goff William, Jltation mastell Long Han8'lip, Shippea hill Lee Aquila lIarrison, farmer Hall Alfred, beer retailer Matthews Cornelius Lee Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer Hall Elizh. (Mrs.), Pig & Whistle P.1l Piper Rev. William Ernest (Baptist) Lee James, farmer, Padnal Hammond Philip, Sedge Sheaf p.a.. L:ster William, farmer Sedge fen COMMERCIAL. Long HanslipJ farmer, ShiEpea hill Hockley lIenry, bobt maker Beazley Alfred, engineer at Middle Fen Marsh William, farmer Laycock Arthur, schoolmaster pumping station Norman John, farmer, Tom's hole Oakman lIenry, Plough & Duck P.R Bell John, engineer at Padnal pump- Palmer HeTbert, black~mith Palmer Arthur, farmer ing station, & Hardwick Arms P.ll. Palmer John, farmer Peckett John, farm bailiff to J. W. Branch river Palmer Jooas, farmer I Luddington esq Brown Elisha, farmer Palmer Wilham, farmer Robb WaIter, farmer Carpenter Fredk. Ernest, schoolmastr Pope Charles, farmer Rogers Porter, farmer Cater James, Middle Fen dilltrict Pope David, beer retailer Saberton John, Burnt Fen district,. drainage officer Pratt James Seaber, farmer I drainage officer Cole Robert Wade, farmer Sewell Michael, blacksmith & wheel- Savage- Isaac, farmer Cross Robert, farmer wright Seaber Mary (Mrs.), farmer Day Eliza (Mrs.), farmer, Swaisdale Sindall John, farmer Stannard Charles, eng:neer at Bumt;.; farm , Summers Abraham, farmer I Fen pumping station Day Hobert, farmer, Blackwinp' Taylor Mary (Mrs.), beer retailer Stevens John, farmer Edwards Albert George, farmer, Taylor Phrebe (Mrs.), shopkeeper &. Stubbingso Richard, farm baUiff to H~ grocer, baker &; draper, Post office Middle Fen toll keeper J. Smith esq Edwards Ernest, carpenter &; painter Veal Goorge. farmer Taylor John, farm bailiff to JameSo Frohock Charles, farmer Watson William, farmer Luddington esq Goat James, farmer Wolsey Henry Kent, Anchor P.ll Tyler J ames, farmer

• RAllltPTON is a parish, 4 miles ~ast from Long Stanton benefit of a "Town Charity," amounting to £28 JOS. station on the St. Ives and Cambridge branch of the yearly. There is also an ancient church e,;tate, the Grcat Eastern railway and 7 north from Cambridge, ill yearly proceeds of which are expended in the maintenance the Western division of the county, hundred of Northstow, of the church fabric and generally in the conduct of. union of Chesterton, petty sessional division and county divine service. To the east, and a little south of the court district of Cambridge, rural deanery of North church is the site of the ancient seat of the de L'Isles; . Stowe and archdeaconry and diocese of Ely. The church it is a quadrangular piece of ground, inclosed by a of All Saints is a small rubble building in mixed styles, wide moat, and popularly known as .. The Giant's • consisting of chancel, nave, south aisle, south porch and Hill." Hampton Manor is the residence -of Charles an embattled western tower containing 3 bells: the chancel Edward Ivatt esq. J.P. William Abraham Ellis Staffurth arah is Late Norman, the bold and low piers of the nave esq. of Whittlesea, the lord of the manor, and Charles Early English, the chancel Decorated, and the tower Per- Edward Ivatt esq. J.P. are the chief landowners. The pendicular: the south aisle retains a piscina and aumbry, soil is very heavy: subsoil, blue clay. The land is in and tht'l"6 is a curious low-side window, with an iron excellent cultivation, producing ~od crops of wheat, grating: under an arched recess in the north wall of the barley, beans and peas. The area. IS 1,372 acres; rateable chancel is a. recumbent effigy, c. 13°°' representing one value, £1,672; the population in 1901 was 178. By Local of the De Lisle family, former lords of this place and Government Board Order No. 15,898 (March 25, 1884), a. founders of the church: in the nave is a slab with ftoriated parI; of Willingham parish, known as Hollowmas, was cross and inscription in Lombardic characters to Sir transferred to Rampton. Nicholas de Huntingdon, of very special interest, and on Parish Clerk and Sexton, Ashby Palker. the tower is a sun-dial: the roof of the nave is thatched, but has timber framing of very fine English oak: the Post &; Postal Order Office.-Charles Rose, sub-post- church was restored in 1900, and affords 150 sittings. master. Letters through Cambridge arrive at 5·55 The register dates from the year 1678, but there is a a.m.; dispatched, 8·5 p.m. The nearest money order transcript dating from J599. The living is a rectory, & telegraph office is at Cottenham, 3 miles distant net yearly value £170, with 28a. 3r. 35p. of glebe, Meresman, Ebenezer Chive!'s (who reiides at Cottenham) annual value [30, and residence, in the gift of the repre- Pu!'lic Elementary School, for 60 children, repaired in sentatives of the late Rev. Francis Strong, and held since 1874, is leased ta the Council; average attendance, 31 ; 1894 by the Rev. Charles Harold Evelyn-White, of the Miss Mary Hall, mistress University of Oxford, and F.S.A.. The poor have the I Carrier to Cambridge.-Timothy Parker, sat