DIREr.TORY.] LINCOLNSHIRE. METHERINGIIAM. 449 Middleton Wm. carpenter & wheelwt Sleight John, Horn inn; accommoda­ Thomas William, farmer, Mell's farm Millson Amos, builder tion for commercials & cyclists ; Todd Harry, potato mer. & farmer Milbon Thomas, grocer good stabling; potato & carrot mer­ Turner Henry Pask, boot & shoe maker Naylor Ann (Miss), dress maker chant Wakefield Lucy (Mrs.), farmer Nelson John (Mrs.) sen, frmr.Common Spilman Jas. miller (steam & water) W akefield Richard, farmer Nelson William, farmer Stocks Alfred, seed merchant Walker William, joiner & wheelwright Nicholson Stephen, grocer Stocks Henry, tailor & woollen draper Watson Richard, coal dealer Parkin Thomas & Son, plnmben Stocks Stephen (.Mrs.), pork butcher Whatham George, marine store dealer Poppewell Richard, beer retailer Stothard John, farmer Wray Richard, watch maker Readhead Thomas, coal dealer Taylor Joseph, boot & shoe maker Wright Spencer, carrier Scarborough James, farmer Temperance Hall (Aaron William Bristow, sec. ; Edward Lane, treas) METHERINGHAM is a parish and large impronng J public and parochial purposes. Thiree-qua.rters of an village, with a station called Blankney and Metheringham acre of Iand, left by one Colley, and called " Colley's ou the Great Northern and Great Eastern joint railway Dole," now produces f) yearly, whiCh sum is given to from Spalding to Doncaster, and is 10 miles north from poor widows. The furl of Londesborough, who is lard Sleaford, and 9 south-east from Lincoln by rail, in the of the manor, J. H. and .A. 'W. Dean esqrs. and the North Kesteven division of the county, parts of Kesteven, trustees of Sleaford Hospital, called "Carre's Trustees," second division of the wapentake of Langoe, Lincoln who are the impropriators of the Rectory land, are the (South) petty sessional division, Lincoln union and principal landowners. The upper part of the parish iB county court district, rural deanery of Longoboby, and light land, inclosed from the Linoom Heath; the lower archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln. The church of St. part is reclaimed fen, and is very productive; the centre Wilfrid is a large building of stone in the Norman and of the parish is a heavy loam. The chief crops are Gothic styles of the 13th and r6th centuries, consisting wheat, barley, oats, turnips and potatoes. The area is of chancel, nave with clerestory, aisles, south porch, and 5,884 .aores of land and 15 ·of water; rateable value, an embattled western tower, chiefly of Norman date, £7,754; the population in 19or, 1,517· with four pinnacles and containing 5 bells: there are Tanvats is a ,hamlet, 5 miles east, at which is a school, mural tab:ets to Sir Thomas Skipwith bart. serjeant-at­ licensed for church service, and a Wesieyan chapel,. law, ob. June, 1694, and Elizabeth Lathom his wife. ob. ereocted in 18 87. r674, and Sir Thomas Skipwith hart. their son, ob. 1710; Deputy Parish Clerk, Jesse Dawson. all of whom were buried at Upminster, Essex; the Post, M. 0. & T. 0 .• T. M. 0., E. D .• P. P., S. B. & A.~ tablet was erected by Sir George Bridges Skipwith, I. Office.-Robert Joseph Swinton, sub-postmasteT. last hart. died in June, 1756; the other tablet, erected Lettars are Teoceived: through Lincoln at 6.50 a.rn. &. by Mrs. Isabella Pitt, is to Mrs. Lucy Skipwith, I Sleaford 5·45 p.m. ; dispatched: at 6. 45 a.m. to Slea­ daughter of Sir Thomas Skipwith, died 1763 : the old fll'rd, 5.40 & 7.20 p.m. to Lin£oln church was burnt down in 1599 and restored in r5o3, when the clerestm-y and battlements of the nave and Public Elementary Schools. tower were added and new piers furnished to the arcades Village {mixed & infants), erected in 1'840 a.s a reading of the nave: the nave was restored in 1858-9 and the :room & a.fterwMds purchased by the Rt. Hon. H. chtll"Ch resea.ted in r867; in r87o the north aisle wa~ Cha.plin P.C., M.P. & pll'esented to the vicar & church- rebuilt, and druring 1'895-6 a sum of £soo was spent wardens, who 111re sole trustees; it was enlarged in upon a. new organ chamber and chancel; the total cost r883, B>t a. cost of £rso, & will hold 200 children; of all these 'restorations amounting to [1,553: there a.re average attendance, go; Joseph Eean, master; Miss sittings far 450 pe<rsons. The register dates £rom the Taplin, infants' mistress year 1538, and is in an exceUent stJate of prese-rvation. Tanvats (mixed), erected in 1857, far 76 children; The living is a discharged vicarage, net yearly value average attendance, 6o; Mrs. i.Metheringham, mistress. from 262 acres of glebe £243, with residence, in the The Heath, 4 miles due west of the vil!lage, erected in. gift of the Marquess of Bristol, and held since 188 I 1893• at a cost of £420, far the use of various plllrU!hes, by the Rev. William Ignatius ,Snell Rawson M.A. & on a site given by the Rt. Hon. H. Chaplin M.P.; Cantuar. Here is a 'Wesleyan chapel, erected in x84o, it will .seat roo persons, & divine sell"Viee is held here and seating 300 persons, a Primitive Methodist chapel, on sunday at 3 p.m. ; number of ehildTen on the· built in x85o, aud a Refoo-m Methodist chapel. Mether- books, 59; average attendance, 49; Mrs. WM"d, mist ingham Reading 'Room, opened in 189r, and built at Wesleyan (mixed), e:rected in r84o, for 146 child!ren;. the expense of the Rt. Hon. Henry Chaplin P.C., M.P., average attendance, 102; HM'I!"y Janes, master Ernest Chaplin esq. and W. D. Gilpin-Brown esq. of Railway Station, James .Alfred Hutley, station master Leamington, Warrw. at a cost of nearly £soo, is used for Carrier to Lincoln.-A. Jones, mon. wed. fri. & sat Alien Edward Goodson, Highfield Butler Wm. Graves, watch maker Greenwood William Hudson, builderr Eavin Misses, End'erley house Caswell John, farmer • contractor & steam saw miller Dean John Henry, Heath house (letters Caswell William, farmer Haire Jas. Matthew, plumber & glazier through Nocton) Chapman Frdk. town crier & bill pstr Hallam Bros. tailors & drapers & pro- Ellis John Constable, The Hermitage Ohapman Ha-rriet (Mrs.), shopkeeper prietors of Hallam's strengthening Henley Thomas, Sunnydale c:arke Wm. & Son, coal merchants & purifying liver & stomach herbal Finder John, Ivy house Cook David, carter pills' Rawson Rev. William Ignatius Snell Cooke George William, grocer Hawley Ben Harris, land surveyor & M.A. (vicar), Vicarage Cooke James, boot & shoe maker income tax collector & clerk te> the Skinns Edward, Elm house Cooper Jane ~fn;. ), farmer, Fen · Pa6sh Council & assistant overseer Suttaby l\frs Copping John Hague, farmer, Fen; Henley Thomas. wheelwright Thomas Rev. Arthm R. (Wesleyan) res. Timberland, Lincoln Hicks Henry M.R.C.V.S.Lond. vet • . Young Henry Bowser, Manor house Curtis Moses, beer retailer, Tanvats surgeon Daulton Henry Robert, butcher Hicks Robert, wheelwright 1Dean S. E. & Sons, famters, land- Hicks William, Station hotel CO:MMERCI.\L. owners & breeders of long wool sheep Hickson .Abraham, tailor (letters thro' Alien Edwd. Goodson,farmer,Highfield & 11hort horn cattle (letters through Dunston) Atkin Thoma.s, blacksmith Nocton. T.A.. "Dean's, Navenby" Ind, Coope & Co. (storM) (W. E. Eayles John Thom11.s, cycle repairer Ellis John Constable M.R.C.S. Eng., Cartwright, agent) Baldock Fredk. Wm. stonemason L.R.C.P.Lond. physician & surgeon Inman Richd. farmer, Waneham farm Ilarnes Samuel, farmer, Methering- & medical officer & public vaccina- Janes Harry, schoolmaster ham Barff; res. Ewerby, Sleaford tor, No. 5 district, Lincoln union Keeling Joseph, watch maker Eavin Mary (Miss), private .school, Ellis Thomas, farmer, Fen Lake Arthnr, farmer~ Lowfield Enderley house Elwick George, cowkeeper Lincoln Eouitable Co-operative Indul'I- Bell Sarah (Mrs.), White Hart hotel Fincham Charles, chimney sweeper trial Society Lim. (No. 6 branch) Blissett Wi:liam, farmer, Tanvats Flintham Georgr, greengrocer (Gilby Maddison, branch manager) Banner .Tohn. saddler & harness mkr Foster Chas. & Sons, tailors, High st Lintin John, householder, The Grange Eriggs William, rope maker Gadsby Charles, cycle repairer Maddison Gilby, manager Lincoln Burr Elijah, farmer, Fen Garratt Evelina (Mrs.), boot & shoe Equitable Co-op. Industrial Society :Burtt Waiter & Son, coal, coke & maker Limited (No. 6 Branch) agricultural merchant·s ; head office, Garratt William, farmer Met-ham Arthur Cooper, butcher Wellingore Gibson Joseph & Co. coal merchants Metheringham Friendly Society (Cha11. Entler John, cattle dealer, The Lawn Green ChaTles Wi[iam, wheelwright Xewton, sec) LINCS. 29 .