DIRECTORY.] LINCOLNSHIRE. WOOLSTHORPE. 489 other facing the main entrance and the band-stand. The these and the station is the Victoria hotel, a first-class pump-room, which forms a vestibule to the baths, is hand- house, with large public dining and drawing rooms, smoking aomely fitted up as a lounge and provided with newspapers and billiard rooms and suites of private apartments ; ad­ and periodicals. The numerous baths and dressing-rooms joining the hotel is a cafe and restaurant, with a pleasant more than suffice to meet immediate wants, and much garden attached; the whole is now under the management atteniion has been paid to ventilation. The water flows of Mr. W. I. Roberts, of St. James's Hall, Piccadilly, Lon­ throngh a soft spongy rock at a depth of 540 feet, in a strong don. Eagle Lodge, a large villa residence near the station, stresm, running nearly from east to west, and is computed has been reopened as a first-class Pension on the Continental io yield from 16,ooo to 20,000 gallons per day ; it has been system, where visitors can be boarded and lodged by the analyzed at different times by Dr. Franklyn F.R.s., Mr. day or week, and there are also a number of other boarding West, of Leeds, and Dr. Ziurck in 1863; the most recent and lodging houses. The park of 7S acres, which extends to analysis, made in November, 1886, by Professor J. A. the north and west of the baths and hotel, is open to all Wa.nklyn H.n.c.s. gives the following results :- visitors, and in addition to the tennis lawn in the hotel One gallon contains:- grains. grounds, new courts have been laid down near the bath Chloride of Sodium ... ... ..• 133o·oo house, with an archery ground and bowling green adjoining. Chloride of Calcium . .. ... ..• n 1 ·oo A fine orchestral band plays daily in the kiosk in the grounds Chloride of Magnesium... ... •.• 91 ·2o during the summer season, and popular concerts are given Carbonate of Soda ..• ... ... xo·oo on Saturdays. The erection of a hospital, at a cost of from Sulphate of Soda ••• ... •.• "30 £2,ooo to £3,ooo, is now projected, to supersede the Nitrate of Soda ... ••. ••. •.• ·ss existing Cottage hospital, which is quite inadequate for the Free Iodine .. ... •.• ..• "2o purpose. Among the objects or places of interest in the Iodine (as Iodates) ... •.. ... ·2o neighbourhood may be mentioned Tattershall Castle; Jodiue (as Iodides) •.• ..• ... ·4o Scrivelsby, the residence of the Dymokes, hereditary cham- Bromine (as Bromides) ... ... 3"40 pions of England; Somersby, the birthplace of Lord Tenny- Peroxide of Iron, traces. son ; Kirkstead, with its abbey ruins and fine Ea..-ly English Comparative analysis in every 10 gallons. church; Revesby Abbey, the seat of the Right Hon. Edward Mineral Water at. Iodine. Bromine. Stanhope M.P. ; the city of Lincoln and the town of Horn- Leamington ... ... 1 grain. 4 grains. castle. Krenznach ... ... x! grains. 2S , PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office. Woodhall ... ... 7l , 3S , -James Sharp, postmaster. Letters from Lincoln The water is used both internally and externally and has arrive at 7.30 a.m. & 4.30 p.m. ; dispatched at 12.30 & 6 been of the greatest efficacy in muscular, nervous and p.m. week days only cutaneous affections, as well as in a variety of other corn- National School (mixed), for g6 children; average attend- plaints, and it can be obtained in a bottled form direct from ance, sS; Thomas Johnson, master the Spa, or through any chemist. The establishment is RAILWAY STATIONS:- under the charge of C. J. Williams esq. L.R.C.P. as resident Woodhall Spa, Wilfiam Arthur Welch, collector medical superintendent. South of the baths and between Kirkstead, Alexander Limeburn, collector Cowper Miss, Tyringham Davidson Robert, lodging ho. Ellon ldg Newbery William Hy. builder, North cot Holden Rev. Robert [Presbyterianl East Sarah (Miss),lodging ho.Kirkstead Osborne George, tailor Pyemont Rev. Francis Samuel Pyemont Fixter Charles, farmer Pinning Sarah (Mrs.), lodging house, B.A. [curate], Vicarage Fleck Karl,baker & confctnr.23 TheMall Somercourt Waiter Lieut.Col. Hubert Langton Freeman Thomas, shopkeeper Redshaw .Alice (Mrs.), lodging house, Williams Cyril Jn.L.R.C.P.Edin. The Spa Fynes Michael, cow keeper Oranienhof COMMERCIAL. Garfit, Claypon & Co.Limited (branch), Roberts John, The Malt tavern Atkinson Harrup, Railway hotel bankers, The Mall; draw on Lloyds Rose Alfred, lodging house Beard William, blacksmith Barnetts & Bosanquets Bank Limited, Rose Henry, miller (wind) Blanshard William, lodging house London E c Sharpe James, stationer, circulating Brooks David, farmer Gunniss Edward, blacksmith library, lodging house, & post office Brown Mary Ann (Miss), lodging house, Harness & Son, bakers & confectioners, Skinner .Albert, refreshment room Sleaford villa Kirkstead road Smith .Frances(Mrs. ),lodging ho.Roselle Chapman & Son, grocers, drapers &c. Harness L. M. (Miss), dress maker Smith Grace (Miss),ldgng. ho. Eagle lo London & Manchester stores; & at Hallett Mart ha (Mrs.), lodging house, Swaby Robert, farmer Mareham-le-Fen Syston house Talbot J. (Miss), lodg. ho. Hartington bo- Carless Thomas Alfd. grocer, provision Healey Alfred, farmer Trusswell Charles, tobacconist dealer& butcher, 4, 5, 6 & 7 The Mall Hepenstall Miss, ladies' school Turner Louisa (Mrs.), lodg.ho. Hope cot> Car! ton & &ms, chemists & druggists, H uggins John, nurseryman & florist & Waiter Eliza Ann (Mrs. ) , lodging house, Iddesleigh road; & at Horncastle fruiterer, The Nurseries, 7 The Mall Grosvenor lodge Cartwright Ell en (Mrs. ),lodging house, Huggins Sarah (Mrs.), lodging house Victoria Hotel & Spa Baths (John The Villa Kreuznach keeper, Wareham house Roberts, proprietor) Clark William, farmer Humpherson & Co. ironmonger Willan Elizabeth (Mrs.), lodging house~ Croft Thomas, dairyman Hurding Meshullemeth (Miss), lodging Oakhurst Crookes Brocklesby, buildr.Kirkstead rd house, Sylvenhay Wold Uriah, farmer & overseer Curtis Robert, wheelwright Ingham William James, shoe maker WrightM.A.(Miss),lodg.ho.Davenprt.h() Curtis Thomas, wheelwright Lane James, lodging house, Avenue cot WrightsonF.(Mrs.),lodg.ho.Danehurst WOOLSTHORPE, near Grantham, is a parish and vil- £7o, net yearly value £2oo, including 96 acres of glebe, !age, pleasantly situated on the river Devon, close to the with residence, in the gift of the Duke of Rutland G.C.B. borders of Leicestershire, 6! miles west-by-south from and held since 1879 by the Rev. Edward Alfred Gillett Grantham, and 3i" south-by-west from Sedge brook station M. A. of Exeter College, Oxford. Part of the plantations and on the Nottingham branch and 3~ west from Redmile pleasure grounds of Belvoir Castle, the beautiful seat of the station on the Leicester and Grantham branch of the Great Duke of Rutland G. C. B. are in this parish : here is a spring Northern railway, in the South Kesteven division of the called " Holywell," which supplies Belvoir Castle with county, parts of Kesteven, wapentake of Winnibriggs and water, and there are also quarries of ironstone, worked by Threo, Spittlegate petty sessional division, union and county the Stanton Iron Company. The Duke of H.utland G.C.B. is­ court district of South Grantham, rural deanery of South lord of the manor and chief landowner. The soil is clay; Grantham and archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln. The subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. Nottingham and Grantham canal passes through and has a The area is 2,6oo acres; rateable value, £4,283; the popu­ wharf in the parish. The church of St. J ames is a building lation in I 881 was S98. of stone, in the Decorated style, erected in 184s-6 from Parish Clerk, George Bell. designs by Mr. G. G. Place, of Nottingham, and consisting PosT OFFICE.-Mrs. Martha Ann Griffiths, receiver. Let­ of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and an unfinished ters arrive from Grantham at 7.30 a.m. ; dispatched at tower: it has a very elaborately carved Perpendicular font, 6 p.m. week days only. The nearest money order & tele­ and the east window and some others are stained : the graph office is at Knipton. Postal orders are is8ued here, original church of St. James, some fragments of the tower of but not paid which remain, was burned down by the soldiers of the Parliamentary army who bivouacked here during the siege Elementary School (mixed), built in I87Io at a cost or of Bel voir Castle; services were afterwards held in the £1,200, for 120 children ;average attendance, I06; Jesse chapel of St. Mary, a small building in the middle of the Castle, master Tillage, which was taken down in 1793, and a church erected CARRIERS TO GRANTHAM.-Mrs. Catherine Worthington, to on the same site : the present edifice will seat 400 persons. • Blue Man,' wed. & sat. ; William Bullimore, to ' Blue The ~r of baptisms dates from 1663 ; marriages, 1662; Ram ; ' Lamb, to ' Blue Bull,' mon. & sat. ; Robert Read, burials, 1661. The living is a rectory, tithe rent-charge , to ' Blue Bull,' mon. wed. & sat .