DIRECTORY!} LINCOLNSHIRE WEST DEECINO-.. 16{ llat~hew Beill!iln, of Queen'tt College, Birming)lam. Po,;t. M. 0. & T. Office, Deeping St.. Nicholas.-Mn. During the year 1899 a new chnTCh Sunday school wa~ Ma.ry Rig!Jall, sub-postmistress. Letters through built at a cost of f.x3o. Mission services are held Spalding. Letters- for Tongue End & adjacent--farms during the summer months at Tongue End in the are received from Pode Hole via Spalding, & for Stow,-. Public Elementary school. Hen is a Primitive Met,.lto­ Gate & Mr. Whitfield's through. Market Deeping. dist chapel, erected in 1867, the site for which was given There is a telegraph office at Littleworth railway by the late Mr. James Haynes, of West Deeping Fen; station (G.N.R.) for dispatcn, but no delivery; Qlosed there is also a General chapel at Tongue End. The on sunda.ys prinuipal landowners are the Marquess of Lincolnshire, Wall Letter Boxes. Near the Blue Bell P .H. ; near Oat­ the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln, Jonathan Ward esq. sheaf P .H.; near MP-. Freir's & Tongue End sehool Rerbert· Parkinson Carter esq. Mr. Thomas Worth, Public Elementary Schools. William Denni9 & Sons Limited, John Henry Bunting ' . esq. Thomas Arthur Pick esq. 8Jld Edward Montague Middle Tcwnship (mixed); built in 1876, for 1:35 chil- l:arle Welby esq. The soil -is loamy; subscil, clay and dren, & enlarged in 1909• for 5o children ; Mitis silt. The chief crops are potatoes, rape seed, wheat, Dorothy Healey, mistress barley, oats, peas and beans. The: population in 19II Tongue End (North Township) (mixed), built in 1876, was 1,439 r the area is 14,902 acres of land and 71 of for 8o childreiP, Mrs. Ada Whittington, mistress ·water, parts being nearly the whole oL. Deeping Fen, which is drained by two powerful engines of ·so and 6o Railway Stations. Jtorse power, and is now- in a high state of cultivation ; Liltleworth, Thomas Day, station master J'lltt-abl~ Counter Drain, Lionel G. D~nnis, station .mRBter value, £2o,go5 .. • DEEPING ST. NICBOJ.AS. Haddon Henry, registrar of births, Stennett William, smallholder- deaths & marriages for Deepin:g St. Stevenson George,farm bailiff to Wm. Benwn Rev. Wm. Matthew, Vicarage Nichola.s sub-distTict Dennis & Sons Ltd. The Beeches Crick:Mrs tHardy Charles William, farmer tWatts Robert Knowles-, farmer . Freir George Ivatt Charles William, smallholder tWhitfield George, farmer (poiJtAI.l Porter William Edward, The -Hollies fi-att Robert, smallholdeT address, Langtoft, t'eterborough) Ives Goorge, smallholder Wigginton John, Oatsheaf P.H COMMJo;RCIA.L. • Ives William, smallholder Winsor James Arthur, smallholder Marked thus t farm ISO a.cres or over. J ackson Frederick, smallholder · Winsor Ro bert Alien, smallholdet" Anderson Edward, cattage farmer Jackson Gem:ge, smallholder 1 W~sor W~ll~am, ~mallholder - .Atkinson Lucas, · farmer, Deeping Jackson Henry A. smallholder 1Wmsor Wilham, JUD. smallholder' High bank (letters should be Jackson John William, Blue Bell P.H tWorth Sidney, farm~r addressed, Postland, Spalding) Lake Alfred, smallholder Bailey Charles William, smallholder Lead beater John, smallholder TONGUE END. Barnes Gharles, smallholder Leadbea·ter Thomas, smallho-lder [Letters should he addressed'' Pode Hole" Battram George, beer retailer Luck George,, smallholder · instead of Deeping St. Nicholu.] f&ardsley Harry Howard, farmer, Neal Peter, farmer Deeping High bank (letters should Pateman Alfred, smallholder eoMMEBCIAL.. · be addressed Postls.nd, Spalding) Pateman John James, smallholder Marked thus t farm 150 acres or over.- :Bishop William H. wheelwright Patman Thomas, farm bailiff to Andrew Charles Edwa.rd, farmer :nrewster Samuel, smallholder Walter Gordon Smith esq Andrew Edward Farrer, butcher · Brittai.n: ..Ann (Mrs.), farmer Pearson John Henry, farm bailiff to Bollins James Henry, farm .bailiff W- Campain Mary E. (Mis'l!), farmer A. J. Preston"esq HaiTington Searby esq · Carter H. P. & Son, farmers Perkins Fred, Plough P.H Clifton Henry, farm bailifi to Ml'. tChappell Edward, farmer Phillips J oseph, smallholder Frank Herbert Cook Charlton Henry K. smallholder t Pick Thomas _A,rth ur, farmer Cgupland Arthur, BIDailholder Olayton Robert .& Waiter, farm,ers tPorter William Edward!, farmer &'Goodman Ed.ward, Chequers P.H Cox George, smallholder llmdowner, The Hollies, Church & 1 Gout Mary Louisa (Mrs.), Carr~n Crick & France, butchers Hedge farms . Arms .P.H Crick John Baptist, Harrow inn Posey John William, smallholder Ivatt William, smallholder Dennia William & Sons Limited, Pratt John, farm bailiff to W. E. Leadbeater H8.Ny, l'!mallholder farmers & landowners Porter esq Melson David, farm bailiff w Samuel tEady James Edward, farmer Preston Albert James, farm{lr Freir esq Ellis & Everard Ltd. · eoal, lime, coke tPreston William Henry, farmer Middleton Henry, farm bailiff to &c.mers. Railway -stn; & a.tStamfrd Pycro-ft Fred, -smallholder Messrs. Digby & Co. .(lett.en :Fowler Charles, smallholder Reedman Robert, smallholder should be addressed, Grlltham. France Charles, butcher, see Crick Reynolds Johrl, smallholder Bourne) & France Robinson George, householder Roberts John, f1nm bailiff to Tom A. tFreir. Goorge, farmer Scarcliffe 'Tom, blacksmith White esq :Frost George, Bmallholaer Shinkins Thos. & Leonard, smallhldrs tShillaker George, farmeT · (letters German Frederick,farm bailiff to ¥r. Smith & Co. wheelwrights should be adchessed Baston, Peter-- Charles Neaverson, Stowgate (let­ Smith David, 11mallholder borough~ ten through Deeping St. James) Smith Thomas, smallholder- Turner John, smallholder Griffin Frank, smallholder Stainsby Cha1'1e9 Fred, beer retailer tWard Ernest. Harold,.. farmer, Baston Griffin J oseph, farmer Steele J oseph, smallholdeT Fen (postal address, Pete~borough) • WEST DEEPING (or I)eeping West) is a parish and of the Wake lands: in 1Bj'6 the chancel was restored, compact and well-built village, on the banks of the Wel­ and the nave, tower and spire were substantially land, :fhich is here crossed by a. bridge of one arch, and repaire~. the woole at a OOE>t of £2,800, under t~ a.-little south of the Stamfo:rd road, I mile east from direction of, _Mr. W. Butteroeld, architect: a.n andent Tallington station on the main line of the Great Northern stone screen divides the nave and chancel; the latter railway, 2 miles south-west from MarkeJ. Deeping and has been elaborately decorated in colour by lob. Townl!· \ . about 5. east from Stamford, m .the Rutland and Stam- end, and has a gilt and coloured, reredos, enrM:hed' wit-h ford division of tbe county, parts of Kesteven, Ness mosaics ~ the west window and all the chancel wind<J'W's wapentake, Bourne petty sessional division, Stamford are stained : . there are r4o sittings. The register union and county court district, rural deanery of Ness dates from the year 1657- The living is a rectoq;. net and arch deaconry and diocese -of Lincoln. 'l'he church of yearly value £263, arising from 200 acres of glebe... with St. Andrew is an ancient edifice of stone in the Early residence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, 1lDd held English and Decorat{ld styles, consisting of chancei, smce• 1918 by the Rev. • Percy Gore Graha.m. A Ceme- nave, aisles, south porch and a western tower with tel"y of a quarter of an acre was formed in r883.- at a. crocketed spire a.nd pinnacles containing- 5 bells: in cost of about £3oo, and is now nnder the controLof a the chancel are sedilia and a piscina, and the remains Burial Board. The charities amount to about l3o- a of two 1ow side windows ; at the east end of the year, left in house property and land, and ilivided south aisle is another piscina, and near it a hagioscope: between the school and the poor. The Manor Ho.use, the ()Ctagonal. _font is a finely executed work, with built in 1034, is now ( 1918) unoccupied. Th&- manorial p~elled sides, exhibiting the -arms of the Wake and right3 have been I!!Old; for particu.l&rs, ~1M3 Market, other families; on the panel adjoining that which Peeping. Mr. William- E. Po'rter and Manas11eh Joseph bears-the Wake arms. is a shield of srms believed to Tryon esq. are the principal landowners. The soil is. be ~hat of the Black Jlrince, wh{J married the heiress loam; subsoil, gravel. The chief crops ~~ors c&reals. LINCS~ 6 .