238. HOLUEA.CI1. LINCOLNSHIRE. (XELLY's beach parish, extP.nding to the Wash : it was formed into Phrenix Fire, W. Abbott A.C.A. High street an ecclesiastical parish, April 16, 1869, and has two small Positive Life, Mossop & Mossop, West street churches. The church of St. Mark, 11ituated 5 miles north Provident Life, Thomas Mitchell, Post office of Holbeach, was erected in 1868-9, at a cost of £1,350 on a Royal Farmers' & General, H. J. Horry, High street site of half an acre, given by the Crown, and was consecrated Scottish Equitable Life, J. W. Willders, Cemetery road 6th Jan. 1869, by the Right Rev. John Jackson D.D. then Sun Fire, J. W. Willders, Cemetery road bishnp of Lincoln : it is an edifice of red brick, in the Early Westminster Fire, William B. Stableforth, Albert street English style, f:-om designs by Mr. Ewan Christian, archi­ PuBLIC EsTABLISHME:STS :- tect, and consists of apsidal chancel, nave, small north transept and western turret: the stained windows of the Assembly Rooms, Cemetery road, Richard Faulkner, keeper apse were inserted in 1873-4, at a cost of £100, and thel'e is Cemetery, Penny Hill road, Robert Millns, clerk & regist1ar a memorial window in the nave to a daughter of Mr. John County Court, His Honor James Stephen LL.D. judge; Teesdale : there are 188 sittings. The register dates from Richard Caparn, registrar & high bailiff ; John Warin April, r869. The living is a vicarage, gross yearly value Willders, deputy ; H. B. Gould, Norwich, official receiver. from tithe rent-charge £36'5, net £251, with residence, in The court is held at the .Assembly rooms every month at the gift of the vicar of Holbeach, and held since 1879 by the 9.30 a.m. generally on the first tuesday. The district Rev. Grant William Macdonald B. .A.. of St. Mary Hall, Ox­ comprises the following places :-Fleet, including Bank ford. The parsonage house, towards the erection of which Fen; Gedney, Gedney Dyke, Gedney Marsh and Fen, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners furnished a rum of £1,400, Gedney Drove End, Gedney Hill, Holbeach, Holbeach occupies a site presented by the Crown. St. Matthew's, Marsh, Holbeach Drove, Holbeach Fen, Lutton, Sutron a chapel of ease in the eccle!'!iastical pa.. ish of Holbeach St. Mary, Sutton St. Matthew, otherwise Sutton, Button )iarsh, is situated 3 miles due east from St. Mark's and 8 Bridge, including Sutton Marsh ; Sutton St. James, miles north-east of Holbeach: it was erected in 1868-9 on a Sutton Fen, Sutton St. Edmunds, Tydd St. Mary, Whap­ !'lite given hy J. Ward esq. at a co.o;t of £8oo, raised hy sub­ lode, Whaplode Marsh & Fen, & Whaplode Drove & sciption, and was consecrated April 5, 1869: the chapel is Wingland built of red brick, in the Early English style, from designs Certified Bailiffs under the Law of Distress Amendment Act, by Mr. Ewan Christian, and consists of chancel and nave, 1888, William Abbott, Holbeach; William Hackworth, under a single roof, south porch and a turret containing one Holbeach ; William Simmons, Holbeach ; Alfred Cole, bell : there are sittings for no persons. Divine service is Long Sutton ~ Edwin Dawes, Long Sutton; Thomu held here on Sunday afternoons by the vicar of St. Mark'!!. William King, Long Sutton The area is 9,:140 acres; the population in r881 was 743· County Police Station, Edinburgh walk, Thomas Caban, inspector, & 2 constables PosT, M.O. & T.O., S.B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.- Fire Brigade, J. Presgrave, captain, & 8 men Thomas Mitchell, postmaster. The mail11 arrive at 4· 15 &: Stamp Office, High street, Robert Merry, stamp distributor 6 a.m. & 12.10 &: 5.50 p.m.; dispatched at 10.15 a.m. & 4.30, 7.30 & 9 p.m. Letters arrive from Long Sutton &: HoLHEACH UNION. Sutton Bridge by messenger at 9-45 a.m. & are dis­ Board day, alternate thursdays, at the ·workhouse, at II a. m patched thereto at 12.45 p.m. The box closes half an The union comprises the following parishes :-Fleet, Gedney, hour before the departure of each mail. There is a Gedney Hill, Holbeach, Lutton, otherwise Sutton St. RECEIVING HousE at St. Mark's, from which letters are Nicholas, Sutton St. Edmunds, Sutton St. James, Sutron. dispatched at 4 p.m. & one at St. John's, from which let­ S~. Mary, Tydd St. 1\lary, Whaplode & Wingland. Part ters are dispatched at 8.30 a. m. & one at the Hurn, from of ·wingland, reclaimed from the sea since 183o, is situated which letters are dispatched at 5 p.m. ; a PILL.A.R Box partly in Norfolk; the population of the union in 1881 at St. Matthew's school, cleared at 3 p.m was 19,251 ; rateable value, £146,197 Clerk to the Guardians & .Assessment Committee, Richard CouNTY MAGISTRATI':S FOR ELLOB PB·I"l'Y SR!I!!ION.A.L Peele Mossop, West street, Hulbeach DIVISION. Treasurer, Algernon Peckover, Gurney's Bank, Holbeach Sitting at Holbeach. Relieving Officers, Rolbeach district, Christopher Marsball, Howard George Fredk. Curtois esq. Long Sutton, chairman Church street, Ho! beach; Long Sutton district, Reuben Carter La wrance esq. Em pingham, Stamford Temperton, Long Sutton Clark Henry esq. Clay hall, Spalding Vaccination Officers, Long Sutton sub-district, Richard Dove Rev. John Thomas M.A. Vicarage, Cowbit, Spalding Francis Winfrey, Long Sutton ; Holbeach &; Gedney Hill Howard FitLRlan esq. Holyrood house, Spalding sub-districts, Christopher Marshall, Holbeach Jackson Rev. John Russell M.A. Vicarage, Moulton, Spalding Collectors of Poor Rates, John Thomas Stephenson, Hol­ Lawrance Jn. Comptun M.P., Q.c., D.L. Dunsby hall, Bourne beach; James Pridmore Stubley, Sutton St. James Leigh-Bennett Rev. Geo. Spencer H . .A.. Vicarage, Long Suttn Medical Officers, Gedney Hill district, James Trigue Crow­ Mawby Robert esq. Spalding den M.l>., C.M. Gedney Hill; Lutton district, J. G. Dunlop Skelton George esq. The Limes, Long Sutton :M.B., C.M. Long Sutton; Long Sutton di5trict, Cbarle.!l Clerk to the Magistrates, Richd. Caparn, Albion vil. Fleet Baring Langton L. R.C. P.LOnd. Long Sutton; Holbeach Petty Sessious are held at the .Assembly rooms monthly North district, Thomas Jackson, Sibley house, Holbeach; (date fixed every quarter) at II a.m. The following places Holbeach South district, Ambrose Blithe Vise, Abbots are included in the petty sessional sub-division :-Fleet, Manor house, Holbeach; Sutton Bridge distrit."t, Ricbd. Gedney, Holbeach Drove, Holbeacb Fen, Holbeach Hum, Johnston F.R.c.s. Sutton Bridge; Tydd district, Charle& Holbeach Marsh, Sutton St. Edmunds & Sutton St. James, Baring Langton L.R.C.P.LOnd. Long Sutton Whaplode & Whaplode Drove Public Vaccinators, the same as the medical officers, excep~ Holbeach districts, which form one for vaccination pur­ LocAL BoARD. poses, Robert Russell Harper L.R.C.P.LOnd. Littlebury Offit.-es, High street. house, Holbeach, public vaccinator Board day, first monday in the month, at 4 p.m. Superintendent Registrar, Robert Millns, Market place, MEMBER!!. Holbeach; deputy, Jn. Warin Willders, High st. Holbeach William C. Worth, chairman; John Carbutt, Charles Webb, Registrars of Births & Deaths, Gedney Hill sub-district, William B. Meatheringham, Francis Green, David C. Asp­ John Addy Bellairs, Gedney Hill; deputy, James Trigue land, Joseph William Ward, Joseph Caudwell; one vacancy Crowden M.D. Gedney Hill ; Holbeach sub-district, Wm. Clerk, Robert 1\'lillns, Market place Robert Millns, High st. Holbeach ; deputy, Wm. Ab bott, Treasurer, Algernon PeckO\·er, banker, Wisbech High street, Holbeach ; Long Sutton sub-district, Edwia Medical Officer of Health, Thos. Jackson, Sibley ho. Hnlbeach Creak, Long Sutton; deputy, William Henry Woolcoci, Surveyor, Inspector of Nuisances & Collector, ·waiter Rid- Long Sutton lington, Barringtongate Registrars of Marriages, Holbeach district, William Roberl lNSUR.~NCE AGE!'i"TS :- Millns, High street, Holbeach ; Long Sutton district, Richard Francis Winfrey, Long Sutton Accident, W. R. Millns, High street Workhouse, Fleet, is a building of brick, built in 1837, at a Atlas Fire & Life, Robert Millns cost of [5,812, &: will hold 419 inmates; Robert Russell British Empire Mutual Life, J. Curtis, High street Harper L.R.C.Lond. medical officer; Percy Jenner, master; County !<'ire, T. Mitchell, Post office .Miss Lucy Simp3on, matron; Mrs. Florence H. Jenner, General Hailstorm, W. R. Millns, High street schoolmistress Law Union Fire & Life, Mossop & Mossop, West street Live Stock, W. R. Millns, High street RuRAL SANITARY AUTHORITY. Mutual Life Association, W . .Abbott, High street, & J. W. Clerk, Richard Peele Mossop, West street, Holbeach Willders, Cemetery road Treasurer, Algernon Peckover, Wisbech London Guarantee k Accident, W . .Abbott, High street ~Iedical Officers of Health, Holbeach district, Thos. Jaekson, Northern Assurance, Jonathan Mottram, Church street Sibl~y house, Holbeach; Sutton Bridge district, RichArd Norwich Union Fire, W. A. Mills, High street J ohnston, Sutton Bridg-e Norwich & London .Accident & Casualty, W. Abbott,High st Inspector of Nuisances, Reuben Templeton, Long Sntton .