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or two good ·windows: there is ilo habitable recto:-y house C. Vyner esq. is lord of the manor >a.nd owner of nearly all attached t() the benefice, the incumbent residing in a housa the land. The soil is clayey; subsoil, clay. The chief crops near the church; of which he is the o'\Ulet:': the church has are wheat and beans. The area is 924 acres; rateable value~ been recently (1884) re-roofed and improved, at a cost of £1,252; the population in 1881 was 1:59, but recently has upwards of £roo, defrayed partly by the rector and partly much decreased. by subscriptions: the church plate hears date x.68o. The Parish Clerk, David Twigg. register .of baptis~~· b~rials. and marriages dates from the, LE'ITER Box cleared at 1 p.m. Letters through Louth, the year 1558. ~he hv_mg J,S a discharged rector_y, gross y~arly I nearest money order & tele()'raph office value £230 mcludmg 52 acres of glebe, m the g1ft of . . "' . . Robert C. Vyner esq. and held since 1876 by the Rev. James Dame School, M1ss Ehzabeth Tw1gg, mistress Foster B.A. Durham. The Wesleyans have a place of wor- The elder children attend the schools at Aby, & ship here, built 1862. The rector has £4, and the church . poor £1 tos. yearly, left by Thomas Taylor in 1708. Robert Railway Station, Thomas Winfield, station master Foster Rev. James B. A. The Vicarage Blanchard Henry, farmer, Glebe Farm Sharpe William, shopkeeper Hew~on Edmund Ingram Joseph, Eldin, farmer Turner GeCJrge Byron, brick manufactr Sharpley Abraham Kirman Jn. Hewson, farmer, Hall Farm Twigg Charles & Vt'illiam, farmers Banks Thomas, butcher & beer retailer Robinson Spencer, farmer, The Grange AYLESBY Is a small village and parish, in the Northern register dates from the year 1561. The living is a vicarage, di,·ision of the county, Bradley Haverstoe wapentake, Cais- gross yearly value £73 with 35 acres of glebe, in the gift of tor union, county court district, , Thomas Tyrwhitt Drake esq. but pro hac vice, the Crown rural deanery of Grimsby No. 2, archdeaconry of Stow and held since r883 by the Rev. George William Julius and , 5 miles west-south-west from Grimsby Jacoby, who is also curate of and resides at Laceby. Thomas and 4 so;.tth-west from Great Coates railway station, on the Tyrwhitt Drake esq. of Shardeloes, Bucks, is lord of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire railway and r6o from manor and sole landowner. The soil is strong loam; sub­ . The church of St. La\lTcnce is a building of stone soil, clay on low lands, on the wolds chalk. The chief crops of the Earlv English, late Decorated and Perpendicular styles are wheat, barley anrl oats. The area is 2,1 w acres ; rate­ and consists of chancel, nave, aisles and an embattled tower able value, £2,620; the population in 1881 was 121. with four pinnacles containing 3 bells and a south porch: Parish Clerk John Horton. the nave and aisles were re-roofed and the tower repaired in ' 1857, under the direction of Messrs. Maughan and Fowler, at LETTER Box cleared at 4 a cost of £420, raised by subscription from the principal par- Letters are received through Great Grimsby, The neare;;t ishioners: below the west window of the north aisle is the money order & telegraph office is at Laceby effigy m stone of a lady of the fourteenth century. The The children of this place attend Lace by National school Clark Juhn, farmer I McAulay Samuel, farmer I "'alker Robert, farmer, Aylesby Manor , see ENDERBY.

BARDNEY with (or .SOUTH-ROW) and BARDNEY DAIRIES.

BARDNEY is a parish, large village and station on the Great J who murdered nearly all the monks : after remaining in Northern railway, in the Mid division of the county, parts of ruins 200 years, it was rebuilt in the reign of William the Lindsey, Western division of the wapentake of Wraggoe, Conqueror, by Bishop Remigius and Gilbert de Gaunt, Ear-l Lincoln union and county court district, rural deanery of of Lincoln, who endowed it with tithes of all his estates: ·wraggoe, archdeaconry of Stow and diocese of Lincoln, the building stood upon 6 acres of land, in a moated en­ situ~te .on the east bank of the river ~'itham, 129 miles closure containing 25 acres ; the abbots were styled lords of from London, 6 south from , 10 east-by-south from Lindsey and sat as Peers in Parliament: their possessions Lincoln and 10 west from . The Great Northern received the last charter of royal continuation 2oth of Henry railway has stations at Bardney and Southrey; at the VII. ; and it is conjectured that it possessed 2o,ooo acres of former is the junction of the Louth and Lincoln line. The land, advows(}ns and pensions from churches and an annual church of St. Lawrence is a large building of brick and income of the present value of £r6,ooo: the revenue wa!t stone of the Perpendicu;ar period, dating probably from valued at £429 7s. and after the Dissolution the site was about 1420, with some fragments of Norman work, consist- granted tu Sir Hobert Tyrwhitt: the moated site is all that ing of chancel, nave, aisles and a square embattled western is now left to mark the site of 'this great monastie house. tower containing 4 bells: the chancel was restored in 1873 The Earl of Harrow by is lord of the manor. The 'Principal at the eost of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners: the 11.ncient landowners are Robert Charles de Grey Vyner esq. trustees al1:ar slab, bearing seven crosses, has been Taiserl from its : of the late Phil!ip Gibbons esq. and Wrliiam Henry Donville previous position in the floor and now oceupies its original ' csq. and Alfred Hutton esq. The soil is various; subsoil, place, supported on an oaken frame; it was brought from · day, sand and gravel. The chief crops are wheat, barley the old abbey, the ruins of which are near: there is some I and oats. The area is 5,243 acres; rateable value, £ro,858 ~ church plate of the date 15691 the rest of the church ·was the population in 1881 was 1,39J, restored in 1878, at a cost of about {,2,500, when the west S~AKEHOLJ\IE and BARDNEY .DA.IRIEs are hamlets, 2 end of the north aisle was formed into a baptistery. The miles north. · · register dates from the year 1653. The living is a discharged SouTHREY is a hamlet and statiQn on the Great Northern vicarage, net yearly value £ rso, in the gift of the Bishop of railw