7 182 .EAG'LE HALL. LINCOlNSHIRE. [KELLY H

EAGLE HALL, formerly exbr'a~parochial, .is no\'f a property of Thomas 0. Curtis esq. Thl>re llrfl t,r56 parish, one mile north-west from Swinderby station, acres; rateable value, £t,oio; the population in 1g1't which is within the parish and about 12 south- was 55· 'lfest from l.incoln. It is in the North Kesteven division This parish is reputed to be extra-parochial for \f the county, parts of Kesteven, higher division of the ecclesiastical purposes. lmndred of Boothby Graffoe, petty Sessional division of Lincoln (South) and Lincoln nnion and county court Letters received from Lincoln 7·30 a.m -district. The land, tlXCepting about 3oo acres, is the Wall Letter Box, cleared 5.25 p.m. week days only Sheldon ::Maurice, farmer, Hall farm Thompson Abrahatn & Wm. farmers EASTOFT is a pleasant village and parish, formed vicarage, net yearly value £rso, with residence, in the Sept. 25, 1855, out of the parishes of Adlingfleet, in the gift of Major Frederic Charles Strickland-Constable West Riding of Yorkshire, and Crowle; in Lincolnshire, J.P. of Wassand Hall, and held since 1913 by the ReY. Jand is on tha banks of the old river Do~ adjacent to and Ernest William Dunn B. A. of Bishop Hat:field Hall,. partly in the Isle of Axholme, with a 11tation, one mile Durham. There were formerly traces of a chapel of north-east, on. the Axholme Joinb Railway: the village ease and a burial ground in the plantation adjoining is 3l miles north-north-east from Orowle station on Eastoft Hall, Lincolnshire, but they are not now visible. the South Yorkshire branch of the Great Central There is a Primitive Methodist chapel, built in 186o,. railway, 9 south-east from Goole, partly in the West and a Church Institute, built in 18o5. Eastoft Hall Lindsey division of the county, partg of Lindsey, west (Yorkshire) is the residence of William Coulman esq. division of Manley wapentake, petty sessional division J.P. and Eastoft Hall (Lincolnshire) the residence "r of Epworth, Thorne union and county court district, William Halkon esq. The principal landowners are and partly in the east division of the West Riding Earl Manvers, who is lord of the manor, Major Frederi~ of York, Goole county court district and union, rural Charles Strickland-Constable J.P. of Wassand Hall, Mrs. deanery of Snaith and archdeaconry and diocese of Brunyee and William Halkon esq. The soil is principally York. Eastoft, Yorkshire, and Eastoft, Lincolnshire, are warp; subsoil, peat, sand and clay. The chief crops are separate civil parishu, although combined ecclesiastically, potatoes, wheat, barley, oats and b~ans. The area in the church, vicarage and school standing in Yorkshire. The Lincolnshire is 1,313 acres; rateable value, ,£2,083; and village is lighted with oil lamps, and the roads are under the in Yorkshire, 1,327 acres; rateable value, ,£1,486; popn­ ceontl'Ol of the Crowle Urban District Council. The church lation in 19II, 439 in Lincolnshire and 90 in Yorks. of .St. Bartholomew, which stands in Yorkshire, is a build- The ·population of the ecclesiastical parish is 541 ing of stone in the Early English style, erected in 1855• (which includes part of Thorne civil parish). from designs by J. L. Pears<1n esq. B.A.~ F.S.A. at a cost Parish Clerk, Tom Brown. of £s,ooo, at the sole expense Spilsby and West Keal. Eastville has a station :;a miles Buckland, Norton. Isle of Wight, Mr. Georg-e Bowser, from the church, on the East Lincolnshire section of the of Friskney, and :Messrs. Carter and Son, of Holbeach, Great Northern railway, and is u miles north-east from are the principal landowners. The soil is peat; sub­ poston, 6 south from Spilsby and u6l from London, soil, blue clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats, man­ m the South Lindsey division of the county, parts_ of golds and ·potatoes. The area is 2,740 acres of land Lindsey, east division of the soke of Bolingbroke, Spilsby and 9 of water; assessable value, £2,058; the pop-q­ union, petty sessional division and county court district, lation in I9II was civil 290, ecclesiastical 1,051 (which rural deanery of Bolingbroke and archdeaconry and includes Midville, New Leake and part of Stickford). diocese of Lincoln.. The parish church, erPctt~d in 1840, Parish Clerk, William Millard. is an edifice of brick, in a debased Perpendicular style, Sexton, Thomas Mountain. consisting of nave, with southern apse, north porch, and Letters auive from Boston. New Leake is the n('are't an embattled towe.r on the north side, with pinnacles, money order & telegraph office containing one bell: there are about ~2o sittings. The Letter Box cleared at 4.30 p.m register of baptisms dates from the year J84o,; burial$ and marriages from 1g41 . The living is 8 vicarage, Conncil School, erected in 1897, for So children; -aver- consolidated with Midville, joint net yearly value £300, age attendance, 57; Thomas Whitaker, mastel' 'including 7 acre• of glebe, with residence, in the gift Railway Station, William Henry Lloyd Ruck, statitm of the Bishop of ·Lincoln•. and held since l9II by th.e master 'Moyses Rev. Richarci Henry (curate),,Buttery Wm. (Mrs.), machine awner Garrill Alfred. cottage l~rmel' Sunnyaide Carter Herbert P. ia:rmeP lHorry William (Mrs.), mrkt. gard.enr COMHEBCUL. j Cooke E. T. & Ca.. --eoal merchants, H\lbbert George P"' cottage (arm er Bonnett. John. •cottage farmer . Railway station Keal John William, blacksmith & Bowaer lohn G.eo:rge, wheelwnght Cooke Waiter, eot.tag~ farmer shoeing smith