BLAXKNEY. LINCOLNSHIRE. ChaplinRt. Hon. HenryP.C.,M.P., n.L.,' Bavin Mary (Mrs.), farmer, Dales Hunt Benjamin, farmer J.P. Blankney hall; & 7 Carlton gar- Bavin Thomas, farmer, Fen Lill Robert, farmer, Fen dens; & Carlton, White's, Boodle's & Bott Henry, farmer [Letters received Lupton John, farmer St. Stephen's clubs s w & Turf club, through Navenby S.O] Overton Samuel, farmer, Heath London w Capel Benj.huntsman to Major Tempest Pearson Henry, farmer, !''en Stephens Rev. John Otter M.A. [rector], Cartwright Wm. (exors. of), frmrs. Fen Potterton John, boot & shoe maker Rectory Challens Richard, farmer, Fen Rossington James, farmer, .fen COMMERCIAL. Chambers John, farmer, Fen Sands William, farmer Fletcher William, farmer, Fen Sharp James, shopkeeper & postmaster Barton Joseph John, farmer,Barff house Gilbert John, stud groom to Rt. Hon. Swift John, farmer, Linwood [Letters LLetters received throughMethering- H. Chaplin P.c., M.P., D.L., J.P received through Martin J ham] Godson George, farmer, Fen BLOXHOLM (or BLOXHAM) is a parish 5 miles north of £I,ooo: in the church hang the Waterloo colours of the from Sleaford and 2 south-west from Dig by station on the 3oth (East Lancashire) regiment: there are 8o sittings. The Spalding and Doncaster joint extension of the Great Northern register dates from the year I7o8. The living is a rectory, and Great Eastern railways, in the North Kesteven division with the vicarage of Dig by annexed, joint gross yearly value of the county, wapentake of Flaxwell, parts of Kesteven, from tithe rent-charge £450, including 16 acres of glebe at Sleaford union, petty sessional division and county court Bloxholm, with residence, in the gift of Mrs.Hamilton-Ogilvy, district, rural deanery of Lafford No. I, and archdeaconry and held since I873 by the Rev. Charles Barnes M.A. of and diocese of Lincoln. The church of St. Mary the Virgin Corpus Christi college, Oxford. Bloxholm Hall, bnilt is a plain edifice of stone, in the Early English and Perpen- towards the end of the seventeenth century by Septimus dicular styles, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, Cyprian Thorn ton esq. and enlarged and decorated in I825, south porch and an embattled western tower containing 2 is a mansion of three storeys, with dormers and a wide and bells and a clock : the fabric was originally Early English, lofty projecting bay in the centre, surmounted by the arms and the greater part of the aisle walls and part of the tower and crest of the Manners family, with sejant unicorns as are of that date: the clerestory is Late Perpendicular, and supporters on either side: it is now the seat of Mrs. Hamilton­ has three lights on either side ; the tower also is chiefly Ogilvy, who is lady of the manor and principal landowner. Perpendicular, but the embattled parapet was added by The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and roots. The soil General Manners, whose armorial bearings are conspicuously is various; subsoil, shale and clay" The area is I,298 acres; carved upon the gable of the porch: the chancel arch is rateable value, [I,512; the population in I88I was 97- plain Early English : in a vault beneath the chancel are Parish Clerk buried the remains of Lord John James Manners, d. I762; ' Lord Robert Manners, d. I7R2 ; General Robert Manners, Letters through Lincoln arrive at I0.30 a.m. by messenger d. I828, and Lady Robert Manners, d. I829 : the chancel from Dorrington. Ruskington is the nearest money order and porch were erected by General Manners in x8I2 and & telegraph office the chancel was restored by Lady Manners in I879 at a cost ·The children of this parish attend the school at Digby Barnes Rev. Charles M.A. [rector] \ Ellwood Charles Willcock, farmer ILumsden David, gardener at The Hall Hamilton-Ogilvy John, Bloxholm hall Frudd John, farmer, Moorhouse BLYBOROUGH is a small parish, 3~ miles south from Waiter, rector, I3I2: the arch could not be restored: there Kirton-in-Lindsey stati<.Jn on the main line of the Manchester, are I So sittings. The register of baptisms and burials dates Sheffield and Lincolnshire railway, and 9 north-east from from the year I79I ; marriages, I691. The living is a Gainsborough, in the West Lindsey division of the county, rectory, gross yearly value from tithe rent-charge£557, net parts of Lindsey, west division of the wapentake of Aslacoe, £38o, with residence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, and petty sessional division, union and county court district of held since I883 by the Rev. Thomas Bintield Ludlow M.A. of Gainsborcmgh, rural deanery of Corringham, archdeaconry Christ Church, Oxford. Blyborough Hall, now occupied by of Stow and diocese of Lincoln. The church of St. Alkmund, Mrs. Luard, is a modern mansion of stone, approached rebuilt in I877, at a cost of [I,soo, under the direction of through a long avenue of very fine oaks. The trustees of Mr. James Fowler, architect of Louth, is an edifice of stone, the late George A. Luard esq. J.P. who are lords of the chiefly in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, with manor, and the trustees of the late J. G. Little esq. J.P. are chantry chapel, nave, north aisle, south porch and a western the landowners. The soil is sandy ; subsoil, sand and clay. tower containing one bell : the east and south windows of the The chief crops are wheat, barley and turnips. The area is chancel are stained, being memorials to the late G. B. Luard 2,419 acres; rateable value, [2,329; the population in r88r esq. and to the late rector : the only portions of the old was 249. C'hurch now remaining are the chancel walls and most of the Sexton, Thomas Marshall. west wall and the tower: in the chapel stands the ancient font, portions of effigies and a tomb with recumbent effigy PosT 0FFICE.-Thomas Troop, receiver. Letters arrive to Robert Conyng, rector, ob. I434: a new pulpit and font of from Kirton-in-Lindsey R.S.O. at 9·50 a. m. & are dis- Caen stone and marble, have been placed in the church: the patched thereto.at 4 p.m. The nearest money order office restoration included the re-building of a north aisle, of the is at Willoughton & telegraph office at Kirton-in-Lindsey former existence of which, the arches and pillars of an arcade, National ~chool (mixed), built in I87I, at the cost of G. A. built up in the north wall, afforded evidence : in the course Luard esq. J.P. for 6o children; average attendance, 45: of the restoration some fragments of Norman work were children attending this school may, if duly qualified, be· discovered, and an ogee arch between the chancel and chapel, come candidates for the exhibitions attached to the Board beneath which lay a skeleton, conjectured to be that of School at Kirton Lindsey; Mrs. Ellen Butters, mistress Luard Jn. Godfrey J.P. Blyborough hall I Copeman John, farmer, Cliff I Nicholson George, farmer, The Grange Luard Mrs. The Hall Dawber Daniel Wm. John, farmer Rack Joseph, farmer Ludlow Rev. Thos. Binfield M.A.Rectory Gleadell Thomas, carpenter Sleightholme William Billiatt, farmer, Nicholson Felix, The Grange Harris Joseph, farmer Scotland farm; & at Grayingham Nicholson Gcorge, The Grange BLYTON is a parish, with a station on the main line of one of the Cecil family, dated I6I4: there are 300 sittings. the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire railway, 4 miles The register dates from the year I57I- The living is a north-e'ISt from Gainsborough, I4 from Retford and I53 vicarage, net yearly value £3I2, including 279 acres of from London, via Retford, in the West Lindsey division of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Sir Hickman Beckett the county, wapentake of Corringham, parts of Lindsey, Bacon hart. J.P. and held since I876 by the Rev. Jokn Gainsborough union, petty sessional drvision and county Stanley Cockshott M.A. of Jesus College, Cambridge. Here court district, rural deanery of Corringham, archdeaconry are Wesleya.n and Primitive Methodist chapels. There is of Stow and diocese of Lincoln. St. Martin's church is an a fund for educational purposes left by John Milns, in ancient edifice of stone, in the Early English style, with I8I9, wrth money producing about £I8 yearly, managed by additions in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles, con­ trustees. A school was erected by Sir H. B. Bacon hart. in sisting of chancel, clerestoried nave of three bays, aisles and I88I, for IOO scholars; average attendance, 32. Sir Hick· an embattled western tower with four pinnacles, containing man Beckett Bacon hart. F.S.A., J.P., n.L. of Thonock Hall, 3 bells: the chancel was rebuilt some years previous to x866, is lord of the manor, impropriator and principal landowner. at the cost of the Earl of Scarborough, but retains an The soil varies from light sandy to stiff loam ; subsoil, clay. original east window of Early Decorated character: in the The crops are a succession of grain, with a good share of south aisle, once a chantry, there remain a piscina and pasturage for grazing purposes. The area is 3,999 acres ; aumbry: the font is Perpendicular, with richly carved rateable value, £7,I72; the population in r88I was 705. panels and an embattled cornice: the nave and aisles were GREENHILL and REDHILI., formerly extra-parochial places, restored in r88o, and a new roof fixed, nnder the direction now form a parish, situated between Blyton and East of Mr. James Fowler, architect, of Lonth, the total cost Stockwith, in the Gainsborough nnion, county court district being about £1,350: here is a brass plate commemorating and petty sessional division.