476 WEST RA~EN. . [KELLY'S

Post Office.-George Parkinson, sub-postmaster. Letters 1 .Adjacent to the roctory premises is a room used as a arrive by messenger from at 8 a.m. ; sunday school & for meetings & other purpose& con- dispatched at 5.25 p.m. ; no delivery on sundays. nected with the church Market Rasen, 3 miles distant, is the nearest money The children of this parish attend the schools at Newton order & telegraph office & Osgodby Cooper Rev. Louis George Herbert Drakes Joseph (exors. of), farmers, Marriott James, farmer & overseer. B . .A. (rector), Rectory Home farm Grange farm Duddles John, cottag er Parkinson Geo. gro. & tailr. Post oil COMMERCIAL. Fieldsend Frederick, farmer Port us John, farmer \ Bennett James, fa1mer Foston Danl. carpenter & wheelwright Rawlinson John, farmer Cade Charles, farmer Harrison Rt. Edwin, frmr. South pk Smith Henry, farmer Dale William, blacksmith Johnson George, farmer Thompson Arth.millr. (water) & fnnt Dawson-Margrave William, farmer Topliss Waiter, farmer NORTH a.nd SOUTH RA UCEBY are separate glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of parishes fur civil purposes but united eccle.siastically, Linooln, and held since r888 by the Rev. .Arthur Willijjm and on one of the highest part·s in Lincolns-hire, in the Matthews Drew. There is a Wes1eyan chapel, built in division of the county, parts of Kesteven, r88x, of Rauceby stone, at a cost of £6oo, and seating FlaxweR wapent.ake, union, petty sessional 200. The charities a.re Carre's of £5 yearly, left in 1593 division and county court district, rural deanery of by Robe.rt Carre, of Sleaford, and dividled between Nort.h Lafford No. I, and archdeaconry and diocese Df Lincoln. and , and Dame MargaTet Thorold's of is r! miles north from Rauceby station £5 yearly, left in I7I8; this pa.rish has also the privi­ on the and Sleaford branch of the Great lege of sending two persons to the Ca!'re Hospital, at N()rthern railway, 4 west from Sle·aford and 11 north­ Sleaford. Nea.r the vicarage garden, where the road east from Grantham. The church of St. Peter is an to .Ancaster branches from the one looding to South edifice of .Ancaster stone in the Decorated and Early Rauceby, stands the ancient base of a village cross. English styles, consisting of chancel, clerestoried and which has been supplied with a graceful shaft ~nd finial, ~mbattled nave of three bays, aisles, south porch, vestry and is now a pleasing ornament to the village. The and a western tower with octagonal broach spire, relieved Marquess of Bristol M. V. 0. is lord of the manor and by spire light•s, and containing 4 bells, dating from r6rg principal landowner. The soil is various; subsoil, lime­ to 1723 : the tower and ,gpire may be assigned to the stone and shale. The chief crops are seed11, wheat, late 12th or early 13th century: the south aisle is barley and turnips. The area is 3,2Io acres; rateable Decorated, the porch Early English: the chancel, erected value, £2,030; the population in 1901 was 252 in the in the r6th century, in the time of W. Styrlay, vicar, civil and 644 in the ecclesiastical parish. at a cost nf £44 Ss. 8d. was rebuilt by Anthony Willson Parish Clerk, Thomas Bland. esq. in I853, from designs ty Mr. S. S. Teulon, archi­ Lett€rr, are received through Grantham at 7·45 a.m. tect: during the rebu-ilding many old tombstones of the South Rauceby is the nearest money order office & 13th and 14th centuries and worked stones of the Early .Aucaster the nearest telegraph office, 3 miles distant. English period were found built into the walls: the east Wall Letter Box cleared ab 5.25 p.m window is stained and there are memorial windows to Public Elementary School (mixed), buil!J in 1842, for Mr. Willson, Mrs. Peacock, Mr. Roberts and Mr. Welhy, 116 children; average attendance, 7I; William Henry and some fragments of ancient glas·s linger in the nave Baily, master windows : the north arcade and aisle date from about Carrier.-.A. Clarricoates, to Slelrord, mon. & sat 1320-50, and at the oost end of the latter there remains a cannpied niche, and in the south aislcr a pi.scina, carved SOUTH R.AUOEBY is a large village and parish, witb bracket with canopy, and a hagioscope; and here also is a station r mile south of the village, on the Grantham the arch of a founder's tomb, inclosing a slab of free- and Sleaford branch of tthe Great Northern railway, 3' stone incised with an enriched cross, and an inscription mil~s west from Sleaford and rr4~ from by rail. rcund the margin tu William ffraunk, of Rauceby, ob. The church of St. James, which stood a little north of Sept. 1385, which, however, is later than the arch above; the village, was pullPd down before 1640; the inhabi­ adjoining is another and similar ·slab: during the tants make use of that of North Rauceby. The poor restoration of the north aisle a large mural painting have £ro yearly, left in 171B by Dame Margaret Thorold. was discovered between the windows, 20 feet long and Rauceby Hall, tho residence of Maj.-Gen. Sir Mildmay 5~ wide, with a red border, and a figure conjectured to Willson Willson K.C.B., J.P. is a modern building in be St. Anthony, and another of a grotesque monster: the Elizabethan style, standing in the cent.re of a park the rood loft stairs rrmain perfect, together with the of II2 acres. The Marquess of Bristol M.V.O. who is upper doorway: the font is Perpendicular, and most of lord of the manor, and Maj. -Gen. Sir Mildmay Willson the bench ends are original: atbached to the vestry wall Willson K.O.B. are the principal landowners. The soil is a brass effigy and inscription to William Styrlay, is light, part clay; ·subsoil, limestone and shale. The formerly vicar here, and canon of the Augustinian priory chief crops are wheat, barley, turnips &c. The area i~< of Shelford, Notts, ob. 4th December, I536: in the 2,603 acres of land and 5 of water; rateable value. t.cwer is a monument to .Alice, ISU wife of Richard £2,834; population in xgm, 392. Jessap, d. September 27, IJr6, and Joanna, his second wife, d . .August 31, 1720: in the chancel is a brass to Post & M. 0. 0., S. B. & A. & I. Office.-Frank Sumner. Ida. Maude, wife of .Arthur B. Willson, who died in India, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Grantham at · th h h d · t b 7.25 & II.5o a.m.; box cleared 6 p.m. Sleaford, 3 D ecem b er 11 th , 1902: In e c urc yar lOl a om , apparently of the qth century, with the effigy of a miles distant, is the nearest telegraph office priest in eucharistic vestments and' holding 6 chalice in The children of this place attend the school at Nortb his hands: there are 310 sitting.s. The register dates Rauceby from the year 1688. The livin~r is a vicarage, Railway Station, William Herbert Grant, station master net yearly value £rgo, including 126 acres of Carrier.-Clay, to Sleaford, man ·{ NORTH RAUCEBY. Webster John William, farmer, North Oouling Samuel, boot maker & assi