DIRECTORY.] . SEDGEBROOK. 501 SEARBY-cu.m-OWMBY. SEARBY is a secluded village and a parish, comprising I4th century, now covers the grave of the wife o.f a. the hamlet of Owmby, about half a mile distant, in a former parish clerk, and is inscribed: "lsabella Bark­ l""aliey a short distance from the road from to with, died .April 6th, 1712:" there are 120 sittings. , one mile and a half north-east from Howsham The register, including Owmby, dates from the year station on the Hull and Lincoln branch of the Great 1558. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value .£I44• Central (M. S. and L.) railway, 4 north-north-west from including 62 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift Caistor, and 5 south-east from Brigg, in the North of the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln, and held since Lindsey division o.f the county, parts of Lindsey, south 1895 by the Rev. Henry Hacon, of St. Bees. H. M. division of Yarborough wapentake, Caistor petty ses­ Foster esq. is lay 'rector. Here is a Wesleyan chapel. sional division, union and county court district, rural H. M. Foster esq. of Barnetby, who is lord of the manar deanery of Yarborough No. 2, archdeaconry of Stow af Searby, and John H. Brennard esq. who is lard of and . The church of St. Nicholas, the manor of Owmby, are the principal landowners. 'built in 1833, is a structure of white brick, in a modern The soil is chalk, clay and sand; subsoil, similar. The Gothic style, consisting of chancel and nave and an em­ chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and tnrnips. The battled western tower with pinnacles, containing 5 bells area is 2,498 acres; rateable value, £2,156; the popu­ and a dock: the church was restored and reseated and a lation in 1901 was 214 in the civil and 219 in the chancel screen erected during the period 186o-go, at a ecclesiastical parish. cost of £485 : two of the bells, the clock, altar rails and By Local Government Board Order 20,261, March 24, screen were the gift of the Rev. T. J. M. Townsend r888, a. detached part of Searby-cum-Owmby was an­ B.A. for 44 years vicar of this parish and to whosp. nexed to North Kelsey. memory a stained window was erected in the nave in 189I, at a cost of £43: the east window, erected in Sexton, John H. Winter. 1857, is a memorial to Richard Roadley esq. formerly Wall Letter Box, near Church, cleared at 5.25 p.m. lord of the manor of this parish: in the alley of the Wall Letter Box, at Owmby, cleared at 5.40 p.m. nave there is a stone coffin lid with Latin inscription to week days only. Letters received through Lincoln, a former vicar, who died in 1441: in the churchyard, arrive at 8 a.m. The nearest money order & tela- close to the entrance, is the capital of one of the piers graph office is at Grasby, about I mile distant of the original church, with a delicate moulding of the National (Non-provided) School (mixed), built in 1854. dog-tooth ornament: the base of the churchyard cross at a cost of £2oo, for 6o children; average attend- still remains; and n.n ancient coped stone, with a raised ance, 30; and supported by subscriptions; Miss foliated cross of very elegant design, probably o-f the Gertrude Charles, mistress SEARBY. Smith Edwin, farmer, Searby Moor Barron Jonathan & Son, farmers Bennard William farm; res. Caistor }'reeston Fredk. farmer, Owmby val& Coates William Hy. J.P. Searby manor Winter John H. blacksmith Lingard John, farmer, Owmby vale Bacon Rev. Henry, Vicarage Skipworth Septimus Patrick, sanitary Bainbridge William, farmer OWMBY. surveyor & inspector to Caiswr Coates William Henry, farmer Skipworth Septimus Patrick B.A. Rural District Council & registrar Credland Thomas, cow keeper OWJnby mount of births & dooths for Caistor sub- Mills Jonathan, builder Bennard· John Hy. farmer, Manor ho district, Owmby mount SEDGEBROOK is a parish and village, pleasantly Sir Willia.m Thorold, kt. of Marston, and Anne (Blythe) Beated on the road from to Nottingham, near the his wife, in r67o. The Thorold trustees give a. yearly confluence of two rivnlets, wi~h a station on the Grantham sum of £15 to be distributed among the poor of and Nottingham branch of the Great Northern railway, Sedgebrook at the discretion of the rector and the and is 4 miles west-north-west from Grnntham and 109 overseers of the poor. Sir John Henry Thorold bart. from by rail, in the division of the of Syston, is lord of the manor and owner of the county, Winnibriggs and Threo wapentake, · pa.rts of land, except the glebe of 6o acres and portions belong­ Kesteven, Newark union, Spittlet;rate petty sessional ing to the Great Northern Railway Co. and the Duke division, Grantham county court d~strict, rural deanery of Rutland. The manor anciently belonged to the of North Grnntham, archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln. Markhams, and there are numerous references to this The church of St. Lawrence is an ancient building of stone, family in the old registel'8; the old manor house, situated in .the Norman, Early English and Perpendicular styles, near the church, is now occupied by Mr. William Baker. consisting of chancel, with chantry chapel, nave of three The soil is clay and loam ; subsoil, clay. The chief crops bays, aisles, north and south porches and an embattled are wheat, barley and beans. The parish comprises western tower, containing a clock and 3 bells: the earliest 1,675 acres of fertile land; rateable value, £3,352; purtion of the fabric comprises the arcade of the north population in rgor, 194. aisle, the rest of the building being Perpendicular: in the Parish Clerk, Edward Topps. angles of the chancel are large canopied niches, and in the Assistant Overseer, Charles F. Gascoign(l, Barrow by south wall a canopied sedile, piscina and credence within a Post Office.-Richard Jackson, sub-postmaster- Lette111 iingle niche; in the north wall i-s a smaller niche: the arrive from Grantham at J.Io a.m. & 6 p.m. for pulpit, of carved oak, has the da,te I634. and the prayer callers only; dispatched to Nottingham at 6.I5 p.m.; desk is constructed from portions of the old pulpit; the no delivery on sunday. The nearest money order font is coeval with the north arcade and has an octagonal office is at Barrowby & telegraph office at Sedgebrook basin: the chapel on the south side of the chancel was built station for collection ·& Barrowby for delivery of tela- by Sir John Markham Kt. Chief .Ju'Stice of the King's grams, miles distant 3 Bench, 1462-9, and opens into the chancel by two arches, • the easternmost of which is now enclosed by an iron Schools. screen: there was formerly an altar tomb to the judge Sedgebrook School, erected in I882, with master's honse-, on the south side of the chapel, but of this only the by the Thorold charity trustees, at a cost of £I,5oo; upper slab, now in the pavement of the bnii.ding and the school is the district centre for County Council deprived of its brasses, is left; he died in 1479: in the east scholars from Kesteven & Leicestershire (junior & in- wall is a small incised slab, with effigy and inscription to termediate) ; this school is now a Secondary school .Alice (Skipwith), wife of Sir John Markham, ob. 1494• and taking the special advanced course of the Board of Dorothy, his daughter: in the .angles of the chapel are Education, and is controlled by Ilil governors; Sir J. canopied niches similar to those of the chancel, a piscina H. Thm·old hart. chairman; in 1go8 there were 75 with credence, and at the west end a s.toup, with a shield boys: Frank Upton M.A. head master; G. w_ Preston below it: the church was thoroughly restored in 1897, at B.A., E. W. Taylor, Rev. Thomas Cranmer Ewbank a cost of £6oo, and affords 250 sittings. The register, ) including also entries for East Allington, dates from the M.A. (manual instructor ' J. A. Pocock (art) & H. Stevenson A.I.C. assistant masters · year 1 555· The living is a rectory, net yearly value £ 276, Public Elementary School, erected in x875, by the trus- with residence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, and tees of Lady Thorold's charity (see Marston), at a held since 1896 by the Rev. Thomas Cranmer Ewbank cost of about £ 5oo, for 70 children; average att-end- M.A. of -{Jhrist's College, Cambridge. .A field called ance, ; Mrs. A. Coupland, mistress the ".Abbey Field," to the east of the church, but now 30 included in tho parish of Barrowby, seems to indicate Railway Station, Hdrry ..!lgar, station master the connection of this place with a monastic house. Carriers to Grantham.-Bristow, mon. thnrs. k sat.: The parish is entitled to a share of a charity left by Turner, tues. & sat. ; Selby, sat Ewbank Rev. Thomas Cranmer M.A. COMMERCIAL. Challanrls Hugh & Joseph (Thorn~~;~~ The Rectory Baker William, farmer, The Hall Wm. Jackson, rnngr.),brick makers Jeeves Rev. F'rederick Wm. (curate) Bee John & Joseph W. farmers Culpin Richard, farm bailiff to Sir Cpton Frank M. A John Henry Thorold bar1i