218 TYDD ST. GILES. CAltiBRIDGESHIRE. [KELLY'S TYDD ST. GILES (or Tid St. Giles) is a parish in the for 120 persons, and a Primitive Methodis-t chapel. Bl1'ig­ Isle of Ely, on the Lincolnshire border of the oounty, stock's and Wren's charities, together producing £100 about 3 m]es east from Tydd station on the Peterborough yearly, are dist.ributed among the poor. 'I'he Ecclesi­ and "'isbech section of the Midland and Great Northern astical Commissioners are lords of the manor of Wisbech joint railway, 6 north-west from Wisbech and 96 from Barton, which extends into this parish. The principal London in the N()rthern division of the county. Wisbech landowners are Alexander Peckover esq. lord lieut., of hundrea, union, petty sessional division and county court Bank House, Wishech; Henry .AJlenby; G. Jackson, of district, and rural deanery of Wisbech and in the peculiar Wisbech; John Richard Tindall; Edward W. Trafford; archidiacon111 jurisdiction (}f the Bishop of Ely. The lV. F. Barratt, and Samuel M. Montgomerie esqrs. Tlle ID church of St. Giles is an edifice of the 12th centurv,• soil is loom; subsoil, c:ay. The chief crops are wheat, the Norman and Early English s1lyles, and consists of oats, beans, mustard, potatoes, peas and fruit. The area chancel, .clerestoried nave, aisles, north porch and a de­ of the paris'h is 4,722 acres of land, 38 of water and 10 of tached embattled tower containing 6 bells: the nave tidal water and II of foreshore; rateable value, £7,159; arcades have five Norman bays and one of later date; the the population in 1901 was 875. piers are circular, and capitals varied, some being Norman and oth.ers Early English: the chancel arch is a drop arch FOUL ANOHOR is 3 miles east and has a. Church of on shafts, with Early English capitals: there ar~ several England mission-house. Near here is Tydd railway sta­ niches: the south aisle and clerestory windows are Per­ tion, and there is a ferry at this point across the Nene. pendicular, and the east window is stained: the west doorway exhibits an ogee arch, with three niches over it, A small portion of Tydd Gote, 2 miles north-east, is and there is a fine Decorated window, with buttresses in this parish; the rest is in Tydd St. Mary's, Lincoln­ and crocketed canopies, supposed to be the W'Ork of Alan shire. de Walsingham, architect of the lantern of Ely cathedral: Post &; Postal Order Office.-Oharlell H. Lee, sub-post- the tower stands many yards away from the south-east master. Letters received through Wisbech, via 'l'ydd angle of the chancel; its two lower stages seem to be Gate, are delivered at 6.45 a.m. &; dispatched at 7.10 Decorated, its upper stage Perpendicular: the church p.m. The nearest money order &; telegraph office iil at underwent thorough restoration in the year 1869, at a Tydd, Lincolnshire, 3 miles distant cost of £2,400, and an organ was built; in 1883, at a cost Wall Letter Box, Railway station, cleared 12.50 &; 8.25 of £270: there are 547 sittings. The register dates from p.m. week days only the year 1559. The livin~ is a rect{)ry, net yearly value Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in 1866 &; £295, with II acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of enlarged in 1880, at a cost of £300; it will now hold the Bishop of Ely, and held since 1882 by the Rev. 140 children; average attendance, 100; Alfred ;roseph Gordon Woodgate M.A. of Pembroke College, Oxford. Burling, master; Mrs. Burling, mistress Here is a Baptist chapel, founded. in 1792, with sittings Tydd Railway Station, W. Bradley, station master Tindall John Richd.Manor ho.Kirkgate' Goodale Samuel, carpenter, Tydd Gote Roney Alfred Henry, farmer Woodgate Rev. Gordon M.A. Rectory Gutteridge Nassau Huns, farmer Rose James, farmer, F{)ur Gotes COMMERCIAL. Hill Smith, farmer, Tydd Gote Sadd Joseph, fanner Albery ErnestHy.miller(wind & steam) Hopkisson 'Thomas James, coal mer- Smalley Herbert Fredk. beer retailer Andrews Thomas, farmer chant, Tydd Gote Smith Ruth (Mrs.), shopkpr. Tydd Gte Aubin Henry, farmer,Cross Drove nth Howlett Edward Barrow, farmer Smith Wm.jun.farmer,High Broadgate Aubin Thomas,farmer,Oross Drove sth Jenkinson John Thomas, blacksmith Speechley Henry, farmer, Four Gotes Ball John, farmer Key Henry, blacksmith, Tydd Gote Thorpe Harry, farmer, Four Gotes Belsham William, farmer, Shoffen dike Kilham Harry, farmer Tindall John Richard, farmer &; land· Bills George, farmer, The Angle Kilham William, farmer &; landowner, owner, Manor house, Kirkgate Bliss Nathan, farmer, Redgate house Tydd Gote Todkill Benjamin, farmer Bradley William, station master Lee Charles H. grocer, draper, boot Town Fisher, farmer .Hurling Alfred Joseph, assistant over- &; shoe dealer &; sub-postmaster ·Walpole William James, farmer seer, schoolmaster &; rate collector Licquorice Abraham, farmer Ward Fred (Mrs.), farmer, Broad for Tydd St. Giles Low Edwin Howard, The Anchor P.H. Drove west Durling Thomas, farmer &; ferry proprietor, Foul Anchor Ward Frederick William, farmer, Cla:rk In. Christmas,frmr. Four Gotes ~lawn Arthur lVilliam, farmer, Broad Drove east Qlark Thomas, jun. farmer,Four Gotes Broad Drove east Ward George, farmer, Kenny house Cragg William Colton, farmer May Thomas, fruit grower Ward Thomas, Crown &; Mitre P.H Emblin Thomas, fa:mer, Swall'Ow lane Miller Geo. AUgllstus, marl.et gardnr Watts William, Bull P.H Fines Edward, Carpenters' Arms P.H ~iller George William, florist Williams Geo. farmer, Hannath hall Flint Willia~ H. fa=er Payne H'lrry, farmer Wilson Ambrose, farmer,Willoughby's Fox James, beer retaJer Payne William (Mrs.), farmer corner Fox John, farmer, High Broadgate Plumb Joseph, farmer \Vilson John, farmer, Hol~ingworthho Gibbs James, farmer, Tydd Gote Pratt Robert, farmer Wilson John Mills, farmer Godfrey FTederick, blacksmith Rogers Joseph, machinist Wing Charles H. farmer UPWELL, formerly a market town, is a large village dean of Fincham. There are Wesleyan, Baptist and and extensive parish, 6! miles south-east from Wisbecll Primitive MethoMst chapels. The charity belonging to station, partly in the Northern: division of the county, the parish o'f Upwell Isle, including the ecclesiastical hundred of Wisbech and in thl' Isle of Ely, a large portion portion of it, viz. Christohurch, aInountll to about £137 being also in the hundred of Clackclose, county of Norfolk, yearly. The Public Hall, erected in the year 1868 by a union, petty sessional division and county court district limited company, is an edifice of brick and stone. used of Wisbech, rural deanery of Fincham (western division), for Iffieetings of va.rious kinds, concerts and lectures, and archdeaconry of Lynn and diocese of Norwich. The parioh will seat 500 persons. The Victoria Lodge of Odd­ is on either side of the river Nene, which separates the fellows (Manchester Unity) is one of the largest in the counties of Cambridge and Norfolk, and the Norfolk por- district, posS'essing at the end of 1899 not less than about tion is given in Kelly's Directory of that county. By an 520 members; the meetings are held in the Public Ha:ll, Order which came into operation March 25, 1884, detached on M.()ndays. The Ecelesias,tical Commissioners are lords parts of this parish were amalgamated with Welney, in O'f the manor of Wisbech Barton, which extends into Downham union. A steam tramway runs from Upwell to Upwell. The trustees of the late Rev. G. J. Huddleston the Great Eastern railway station at Wisbech, conveying M.A. Thomas Wright, Samuel West and Col. Lewis both goods snu passengers. The mother church of Vivian Loyd, of $.5 Egerton gardens, London S. W.; Upwell St. Peter stands in Norfolk, and the rectory was Mrs. Fenwick, HIll side, Timsbury, Bath; Mrs. Gay, separated from that of Welney by 9 and 10 Vic. c. 7 East Dereham; Messrs. Jackson Hunt, Edward Few, ~1846). Christchurch is an ecclesiastical parish in the Henry West, William Welchman and Charles Elworthy. Isle of Ely, .. miles south from the mother church and 3 Miss Orton and the Rev. H. W. Coventry M.A. rector of north-east from Stonea station on the March and Ely Severn Stoke, Wores. and the rector of Christchurch are 'Section of the Great Eastern railway: the church is a the chief landowners. The soil is loamy, in many parts cruciform edifice of brick, with coloured facings, consisting highly fertile, and the subsoil clay. 'Ihe crops are wheat, of chancel, nave, transepts, south porch and a western potatoes, peas, beans, oats and mustard; a considerable turret containing one bell: there are three stained win- portion of land is devoted to fruit cu:ture. The area of dows, and the church affords 400 sittings. The register thl' Cambridgeshire portion of the parish is 7,609 acres of dates from the year 1866. The living is a rectory, net la"ld and 66 of water; rateable value of the Cambridge yearly value £763, with 5 acres of glebe and residence, in portion, £12,035; the population in 1901 was 1,380 in the gift of and held since 1889 by the Rev. Charles Francis Cambridge; the population of Christchurch ecclesiast:cal Townley MoA. of Trinity College, Cambridge, and rural· parish was 840' •.