610 WEST TORRINGTON. LINCOLNSHIRE. [KELLY's . WEST TORRINGTON is; a parish, 2 miles from churchyard cross was restored in x88o. The register ~a.st Barkwith station on the Lincoln and Grimsby dates from. the year 1638. 'l'he living is a vicarage, branch of the Great Northern railway, 4 miles north-east annexed to the rectory of East Torrington, joint net from Snelland station, on the Hull and Lincoln branch yearly value £202, including 41 . acres of glebe, with of the Great Central (M. S. and L.) railway; 2! north- residence, in the gift of Christop'her H. Turnor esq. and by-east from Wragby and 13 north-west from Horn- held since rgu by the Rev. Marshal Seth Harold Spink. castle, in the East Lindsey division of the county, parts There is a Wesleyan chapel, built in 1859, and a United of Lindsey, western division of the wapentake of Wraggoe, Methodist chapel, erected in the same year. The only petty sessional division of Wragby, Horncastle union, charity consists of a yearly rent-charge of 26s. which is county court district of Market· Rasen, rural deanery given to the oldest widow. Christopher H. Turnor esq. of Wraggoe, archdeaconry of Stow and diocese of Lincoln. o~ Stoke Rochford Hall, Grantham, is lord of the manor. The church of St. Mary, rebuilt by subscription in x862, The principal landowners are E. H. Burton esq. Goltho, from the designs of Mr. Withers, is a small edifice of Lines, 'Mrs. George Butler and Mrs. Joseph Goy. The atone in the Early Decorated style, consisting of chancel, soil is various; subsoil, clay and sandy gravel. The nave, vestry, south porch and a turret containing one chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and turnips. The bell: during the restoration of the church, the battered area is r,15o acres; rateable value, £r, 162; the popul!!o- remains of an effigy of a Knight Templar were found tion in 19u was 125. outside the church, confirming a tradition, of long stand~ Post Office.-W. Kent Todd, sub-postmaster. · Letters ing, that three crusaders had been respectively buried through Lincoln arrive at 8.15 a.m.; dispatched at at Panton, Buslingthorpe and West Torrington: the 4.25 p.m. week days only. East Barkwith, 2 mil~s other effigies still exist in the two former churches; the distant, is the· nearest money 9rder & telegraph offiqe fragments discovered have been placed near the font, · which is a fine and unusually large structure of the Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1859, for 70 Norman period: the stained east window is a memorial children; average attendance, 33; Miss Ash, mistress to William George Ernest Windham Gerald B.A. of St. Carrier.-Thomas Frederick Rowson, to Louth, wed. re- J ohn's College, Oxford: there are n6 sittings: the turning same day;. Lincoln, fri Spink · Rev. Marshal· Seth Harold Butler George Michael, farmer Proctor Waiter, blacksmith (vicar), Vicarage Butler William, wheelwright Rowson George Fredk.market gardnr Giles Charles, grocer & draper Rowson Thomas Frederick, nursery- COMMERCIAL. Harrison Alfred, farmer man, Wragby road ·Baker George Edgar, farmer Odling William, faxmer .Todd William Kent, grocer,& post off TOTHILL is a small parish, 2 miles north-tast from 1 1910 by t'he Rev. John James Thomson M.A., B.D. of ·~he Authorpe station, on the East Lincolnshire branch r Glasgow University, who is also· rector 'Of .Authorpe. -of the Great Northern railway, and 6 north-west from In the parish is an ancient· military earthwork, ·con­ Alford, in the South· Lindsey division of the county, sisting of a wide and -deep ditch, upwards of 20 feet in tparts of . Lindsey, Marsh division of the Calceworth length, near a lofty round. mound, commonly called hundred, .Alford petty · sessional division, Louth union "Toot Hill.~~ George Payne esq .. ·<>f · Sleaford road, and county court district, rural deanery of Calcewaith Boston, is lord of the manor and chief landowner. The North and archdeaconry and diocese uf Lincoln; . The' soil is clayey; subsoil, clay and sand. The chief crops church of St. Mary, ·which stands on a hill, was built are wheat, ·beans,· barley and oats. The area is 888 out of the materials of an earlier church, and is· a small, acres ·of land and· 3 <>f water;· rateable value, £779; and plain edifice, principally of stone and brick, consist-· population in Igii, 44 ing o~ ?hancel, nave,. west porch and. a western. turret Lette1·s through Alford are due about 8.30 a.m. Letter contammg one bell: 1t was. r~stored m 1894•. at a cost. , Box cleared at 5.35 p.m. T'he nearest money order & of £330, and affords 6o ~1t~mg~. · The register dates ' telegraph office is at Withern from the year x6o8. The hvmg IS a rectory, net yearly value £153, including 68 acres of glebe, with residence, The children of this place attend the schools at South in the gift of Lord Willoughby de Broke, and held since Reston Thomson Rev. John J ames M. .A.., t COMMERCIAL. ·J N eedham 'Geo~ · R. farmer,Manor frm B.D. (rector), Rectory Burman Samuel, cottage farmer TOYNTON ALL SAINTS is a parish and scattered the gift of the Earl of ~\ncaster, and held since x8g6 village, pleasantly situated on an acclivity, on the road I by the Rev. Denis Carey B..A. of Downing College, Cam­ .from Spilsby to Boston, Il miles south from Spilsby bridge. There are two Wesleyan chapels and a Primi­ terminal station on a branch of the East Lincolnshire . tive Methodist chapel. 'The Earl of Ancaster is lord section of the Great Northern railway and 125 miles of the manor and J. B. Marsh esq. is the principal land­ from London, in the South Lindsey division of the 1 owner~ The soil is sandy loam and clay; subsoil, pria­ county;· parts of Lindsey, eastern division of the .soke of cipally ·clay. ' The chief crops are wheat, barley, beans Bolingbroke, Spilsby petty sessional division, union ·and . and potat·oes. · The area is 1,392 acres; assessable value, county court district, rural deanery of Bolingbroke, and £I,OI9; population in 19II, 325 in the civil parish, and archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln. ' The church of All 521 irt the ecclesiastical parish (which includes Toynton Saints is an ancient edifice of brick, in the Early English St. Peter civil parish). style, consisting of chancel, nave and a low western i Parish Clerk, William Gooding. tower containing 3 .bells: it was restored in 1904: 90m- Post. Office.-Mrs. Helen· Parrott, sub-postmistress. plete arcades were {ound embedded in both north and · · Letters arrive from Spilsby at 6.30 & 11.40 a.m. & south walls, that in the south wall, in excellent preser- · are dispatched at 9·45 a.m. & 6.45 p.m.; no delivery vation, belonged to the 14th century, while that in the on sunday.. Spilsby, 2 miles distant, is the nearest north, which had evidently at some time been much · money order & telegraph office damaged by fire, dated from a period 150 years earlier : Letter Box, opposite Mr. Balderson's shop, is cleared there are xso sittings. The register dates from the at 9·35 a.m. & 6.30 p.m year 1716. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1845• & en- rectory of Toynton St. Peter, joint net yearly value larged in r8g6, for 100 children; average attendance, £350, including 358 acres of glebe, with residence, in 70 ,; Richard Luck, supply teacher; Miss Horton, mist Carey Rev. Denis B.A. The Rectory Dawson David, .Ship inn Horton Henry, cowkeeper J ones Thomas Elvidge Harry, farmer J ohnson Eliza (Mrs.), cow keeper Staniland Alfd. Edwd. Toynton hall Elvidge Rebecca (Mrs. ),machine owm J ohnson William, mole catcher COMMERCB.L. Eno Henry, miller (steam & wind), Knight John Matthew, butcher Al'liss Fred, machine owner baker, grocer & dealer in all kinds Mackfall James, cottage farmer .Alliss George, Anchor inn, Hob Hole of offals Moncaster John William, farmer, Alliss Harry, cottage farmer Fletcher Joseph, builder Catchwater !Hiss John George, cottage farmer Fletcher William Arthur, seedsman, Parish Thomas, farmer Balderson Joseph Howard, joiner market gardener & bedding plant Parker James Henry, farmer Barber Alfred, shopkeeper, Fen side grower Parrott Helen (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Barker Robert, farmer Foster Waiter, removal contractor Post office Booth Ge-orge, cottage farmer Gooby William, farmer Pykett John, cottage farmer Bowser Ernest farmer, Fen Hall James, farmer (letters through Sarjantson Stephen, cottage farmer Brackenbury George, cottage farmer Boston) & assistant overseer Clarey Harry, farmer Herring Albert, cow keeper Shaw William,. Coach & Horses P.H HIGH TOYNTON is a parish and villag-e, at the Great Northern railway, in the South Lindsey division termination of the Wolds, on the road to Spilsby, 2 miles of the county, parts of Lindsey, soke, union, petty. east from Horncastle terminal station on a bra.nch of tbe sessional division and county court district of Rorncastle, .