DIRECTORY.] LINCOLNSHIRE. COLSTERWORTH. 145 Pickwell Henry, farmer Trafford Geo. farmer & parish clerk. Pate William, farmer 1 Peet J ames, beer retailer South Harriot (-"'iss), shopkeeper The Heath Pell Richard & Charles, farn:ers Trafiord Charles, farmer . COLSTERWORTH is a p:1rish and village, on the sub-postmistress. Letters through Grantham arnn Great North road and the river Witham, 4 miles west from at 7· ro a. m. & 1.45 p.m.; sundays, g a. m.; dis- the Cor by station on the main line of the Great Northern patched at 2 & 5·35 p.m. week days; sundays, 4·35 railway, 8 south from Grantham, 13 north-west from p.m Stamford and 102 from London, in the South Kesteven divi-sion of the county, parts of Kesteven, Grantham I WOOLSTHORPE and TWYFORD are hamlets contigu­ wapeutake, union and county court district, Spittlegate ous to Colsterworth: in the former stands a farmhouse, petty -sessional division, rural deanery of Beltisloe and which was the birthplace of Sir Isaac Newton, and a archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln. The church of St. tablet placed in front of the building bears the following John the Baptist is an ancient building of stone, chiefly inscription:- in the Early English style, with some Norman and later • "In this manor-house portions, consisting of chancel, nave and aisles, south porch Sir IsAAc NEwTON, Knt., and an embattled western tower with pinnacles, containing "\Vas born 25th December, 1642." a clock and 4 bells: the north arcade is Norman, the two In 1623 the manor of Woolsthorpe was purchased of Eastem arches• being Saxon or very early Norman, with Robert Underwood by Robert Newton, then resident· here, herring-bone work around them; the south arcade is whtJse grandfather, John Newton, son of John Newton of Early English and the north and south aisles Decorated, Westby, near Bassingthorpe, had bought a ihouse and the chancel arch and some of the windows being Perpen- land here in 1561. Isaac, the second son of Robert New~ dicular; the chance1l as well as the Newton ais:e have ton, was the father of the distinguished philosopher, Sir been rebuilt, the lat~r as a memorial to Sir Isaac Newton, Isaac Newton, his only child, who was 'born here December who was lord of the manor of Woolsthorpe and owner 25th, 1642, about three months after the death of his of the manorial ais:e in which his ancestors were buried: father (who was lord of the manor of Wodlsthorpe), anti in the Newton chapel, enclosed in an alabaster case, given was christened in the parish church of Col,sterworth, by his collateral descendant, the late Rt. Hon. Sir Williu.m January 1, 1642-3: in the manor house here he spent Erle, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, is a sun-dial most of his early life; he was educated at the Grammar made by Newton himself with his penknife, when 9 years School at Grantham, and proceeded in 166o to Trinity of age: a singular feature belonging to this church is College, Cambridge, of which in 1667 he was elected that from the chancel arch to the west end there is a fellow: he died March 27, 1727, being then possessed of the gradual slope: the font, a Tarnsitional work, is that in manor of Woolsthorpe and lands at Buckminster and which Sir Isaac Newton was baptised, Jan. 1st, 1643; Sewstern, and was buried in Westminster .Abbey: it was there is also in the church a portion of a Saxon cross: the at ·woolsthorpe in 1665, that he is said to have been led. church was restored in 1876, at a cost of £2,5oo, and from the fall of an apple, to consider the laws of gravita~ affords 275 sitting3. The register dates from the year tion. The manor of Woolsthorpe belongs to Christophe:r 1572. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £sso, Turnor esq. and that of Twyford to the Earl of Dysart. including 420 ac!'es of glebe, with residence, in the gift Letter Box, Woolsthorpe, cleared s.zo p.m. daily, excPpt of the Bishop of Lincoln, and held since 1864 by the Rev. sundavs John Mirehouse f>LA. of Clare College, Cambridge. There · is a Wesleyan chapel,and a Free Methodist chapel, erected Wall Letter Box, Twyford, cleared 5.25 p.m. week day!! in 1858. Colsterworth Reading Room and Library, Public Officers:- founded by the late Christopher Turnor esq. (d. 1886), Medical Officer & Public Vaccinator, Coh•terworth Dis- is supported by the present Christopher Turnor esq. trict, Grantham Union, James William Hancock Stei'l The Church of England burial ground, contiguous to the M.B., C.M church, was given by the present rector. .A Cemetery Town Crier, William Tinkler in the hamlet of Woolsthorpe, comprising a quarter School:- of an acre, was formed in 188o for Nonconformists, and Public Elementary (Non-Provided) (mixed), built ia is now under the control of the Parish Council. Here 1826, & enlarged in 1894 at a cost of £ 450, for 200 are almshouses for four widows of this parish, erected children; average attendance, 145 ; the school was in 1861, at the expense of the late Christopher 'I'nrnor endowed by the late Christopher Turnor esq. of Stoke esq. The rent of a piece of land of about 5 acres, left Rochford & the late Rev. Charles Turnor; the en- for the use of the church, is applied towards the church dowment is derived from a house & consuls, & expens'ls. Christopher Turnor esq. of Pan ton Hall, who amounts to £ 43 per annum; Frederick Ball, master; is lord of the manor, the Earl of Dysart, the Rector and Miss Jane Matthews, sewing mistress; ::\irs. Shilling- Sir Montague Aubrey Rowley Cholmeley bart. of Easton ton, infants' mistress Park, are the principal landowners. The soil is loam; subsoil, gravel and clay. The style of farming is the Carriers:­ four-course system. The area is 3,623 acres; rateable William Rippin, to Grantham, mon. wed. & sat value, £ , s; population in rgor, 8o . Page Bcnnett, to Grantham, tues. thurs. & sat 3 93 4 Thomas Camm, passes through from Stainby to Grant- Parish Clerk, George William Kelly. ham, sat • Post, M. 0. & T. 0., T. M. 0., E. D., P. P., S. B. & A.. Thomas .Atter, to Grantham, sat & I. Offices, Colsterworth.-Miss N ancy Skillington, William Senescall, to Grantham, sat COLSTERWORTH. Featherby Mary Jane ~Mrs.), grocer Sir~u~onds Wm. (exors. of), fellmongrs Bee Rev. Robcrt (curate), Rectory Glass up Edwin, farmer Sk1llmgton J ohn,saddler .x. harnea,s m a. Ball Frederick Hickman Arthur, blacksmith Skillingto:-1 Nancy (:Miss), stationer. Dawson Mrs HouO'hton Richard road surveyor Post office Heaven Mrs Huckerby J oseph,' baker Skillington Stephen, grocer Ingle Frederick, Middlefield J ohnson Lydia (Mrs.), draper Smith William, general carter Mirehouse Rev. John M . .A. (rector), Kelly George William, parish clerk Sneath Thomas. boot maker Colsterworth house Needham John, confectioner Steel Richard, chemist & druggist & Nethcrclift Ralph Hy. miller (steam) cltn·k to the Parish Council COMMERCIAL. Nix on .Arthur, grocer Taylor Eliza (Miss), baker Abbott Fredk.Rt.linen & woollen drapr Porter Frederick William, carpenter & Tinkler Wm. hair dresser & town crier Abbott George, insur. agent & farmer general dealer Webster William, tailor Barker George, White Lion hotel Porter Harry, baker & corn dealer White Thomas Key worth, farmer & Bartram Charles, timber dlr. & farmPr Porter John, farmer grazier Bennett William, beer retailer Porter Newt{)n, stone mason, builder Wright John Wm. Howard, butcher Blankley John J. Sun P.H & shopkeeper Bond Edwin, baker Reading Room & Library (John Foster, TWYFORD. Bowder Adolphus & John, farmers sec) Steil James William Hancock M.B. Brewin Ann (Mrs.), dress maker Rip pin Sarah Elizh. (Mrs.), George inn Highfield Cemetery (Rev. John Mirehouse M . .A. Rippin William, carrier Bartr·am Arthur, farmer, Honeypot clerk) Robin-son Elizabeth & Jane (Misses), Bennett Page, carrier Charles Thomas, Red Lion inn shopkeepers Clayton Jarnes, wheel~w...;right Doubleday Robt. jun. farmer & grazier Ruff Charles, insurance agent Dodd John, butcher Doubleday Robert, butcher & farmer Simmonds Charles Pickwell, fellmonger Foster Fredk. plumber & 11hopkeeper Dove Charles, farmer & grazier & insurance agent Lord Thomas, farrier LINCS. 10 .