426 OWMBY, LINCOLNSHIRE. [ KELLY'S :Blink Rev.Hy.Simpson.A.K.C.L.Rectry Dimbleby John, bricklayer Pattison John, farm bailiff to Edwd. :Booth John, tfarmer FeartJherstone J dl}n, farmer Cross esq :But:er Robert, cottager Fowler William, carrier Pickwell Wm. farmer; resides at Oowbam Chas. Hy. insurance agent Fox Ja;rvis, jun. horse breaker Glentham Dawson Margrave John T. farmer, Fox George, cat.tle dealer Prie!Stley Dixon Thorpe, farmer 0Wllllby cliff Harrison Robert Edwin, faTmer Rhodes John, farme;r DeDJton: George, farmer & c:erk to Kirk George, cottager Scal"borough Jn. school a-ttendance off school board Lamming Samuel, cottager Vessey Frederick A. grocer & tai:or, Deuton William, blacksmith Lidgett John, frurmer Post office OWSTON and OWSTON FERRY. OWSTON is a parish, township and a pleasant village, in ss. per week each. The poor's land produces [42 yearly the Isle of Axholme, extending along the west bank of the for fuel, and there are charities of £5 for yearly distri­ river Trent, from Heckdyke Lane End, in the county of bution. Archdeacon Stonehouse, late vicar of the parish, Nottingham, to the parish of West :Butterwick, and ad- left in 1862 the interest of £s,Soo, and Miss Sandars, in joining the pari;.;hes of Haxey on the west and Epworth on 1868, the interest of [5,300 for va.rious charitab:e purposes. the north, 4 miles north-east from Haxey station on the Near the church is Castile Hill, and various Roman remains Spalding and Donoaster section of the Great Northern and have been found in the neighbourhood. Alfred Parkin esq. Great Eastern joint railway, 9 Mrth from Gainsborough is lord of the manor. The principal landowners are John and 15 north-east from :Bawtry, in the ·west Lindsey divi- William Denne Johnson esq. of Temple :Belwood, :Belton, sion of the county, west division of the wapentake of Samuel Pulleine esq. Messrs. Hutton and Skipworth, Manley, Epworth petty sessional division, Gainsborough John Barnard esq. and Thomas Horberry esq. The soil union and county court district, parts of Lindsey, rural is c!ay and wa:vp; subsoil, peat. The chief crops are deanery of Axholme, archdeaconry of Stow and diocese of wheat, barley, potatoes and beans. The area of the entire Lincoln. The village is lighted with gas from works parish is 5,102 acres of land, 24 of water, 73 of tidal water former:y held by a company incorporated in 1864, but and II of foreshore; rateable value, £6,400; the popu­ since purchased by Mr. J. W. Readhead. The church of lation in x8gr was 1,294. St. Martin is a building of stone and brick, chiefly in the Sexton, George Holmes. Early English style, the oldest portion dating from the end OWSTON FERRY (or West Kinnard's Ferry) is 8 of the 12th century, and consists of chancel, nave, aisles, village, in the parish of Owston, pleasantly seated on the south porch and a western tower with pinnacles containing west bank of the river Trent, which is crossed by ferry 6 bells : tbe stained east window and two more were given boats to East Ferry ; this part has been principally re­ by Miss Frances Sandars in 1i36, and there are five others: claimed from the river. In the Mm·ket place are the in the chancel are inscribed dabs with shields of arms, to remains of an l'lld stone cross. The tidal bore or wave Henry Masterman esq. I674; to D'Arcy Stanhope esq. rises to a great height here. There is a Primitive Metho­ x68x, placed by J.s.~bella, h~s widow; John Stanhope esq. dist chapel, built. in 1838. The Salvation Army holds its 1705; to the famil! of P~ndar, of :Brumby Wood Hall, meetings in the Public Hall. A Public Hall was erected r628-I813; the fam1l! of L1ttlewoo?, 1797-1837; and that in 1852, and a reading room, with billiard room attached. of Pear~, 1795-1824: 1~ t~e chR?~el ~s ~lso B; large fractu~ed ~ Gunthorpe, 3 miles south, on the west bank of the Trent, slab With a deeply m01sed mscnpt10~ m Old Enghsh Heckdyke 2~ miles south and Mellwood ~~ miles north~ characters to Richard :Becbanke, vicar, ob. 1458; this . are hamlet!!. ' ' church was .anciently the burial place of the Sheffield M ._. T T M E D li S B .. family, and there were here in 1530 five tombs, which Posit, : 0 · "' · 0 ·• · · 0 ·• xpre.ss e very, · · a. John, Earl of Mulgrave, in the reigu of Charles II. is said An~mty & Insuranc.e Office, Owston Ferry.-Mrs. Clara to have removed to the church ()f Burton-on-Sta.tber, MaJ?r, sub-postm1stress. Lon~on & other letters where there is a mutilated effigy of one of the Sheffields, r~cruved through Doncaster, ar:Ive at ~0.30 a.m: & are with a tablet recording the removal: in 1790 the nave roof dispatched at 4·3° p.m. There IS no dehyery or d1spatch was renewed, and .short[y afterwards those of the aisles, on sundays, but the letter box re:u1a1ns open as on the clerestory being, in the course of these a~terat1ons, wotllheLer tdtays,.., n· h destroyed; at this time also the ancient oak benches were a er DOX, Ig street, cleared at 4.40 p.m. week replaced by pews ; the chancel retains a. piscina, and there p dliays s~i- Alf d p· h is another in the south aisle: in 1823 a vestry was erected 0 ce IOn, re me am on the north side of the chancel, and in 1835 an organ wa.s Public Officer!!. presented by Elizabeth Stonehouse and placed in a. loft Clerk to the Parish Council & Assistant Overseer, Robed built at the cost of the Most Rev. Edward V. Harcourt Holmes D.D, archbishop of York (1808-84), and :Earl Beauchamp: Income Tax Collector, William Robinson the chancel has lately (1896) been refurnished and the Medical Officer, West :Butterwick District, Gainsborough walls decorated: a good carved oak chest is preserved in u n1on,· w, Oh arrov'-·t LodWl "d ge M . R . 0 . S . Eng. • L . R . 0 . p • the church, which a.ffords 6oo sittings: the approach to Lond. Owston Ferry the church is through a beautiful stone arch, and an Registrar of Births & Deaths, Owston Sub-district, Gains- avenue of elms, sycamores and chestnuts planted about borough Union, James J. Hastings, Misterton 1823. The earliest register, including West Butterwick, consists of some loose leaves only, from the date x6o3, but Schools. the registers are continuous from 1709; there are also National (mixed), for 200 children; average attendance, churchwardens' accounts from x66o to 1684. The living is xso; John Frewin, master a vicarage, average tithe rent-charge [22, gross yearly Wesleyan (mixed), built in 1837, for 125 children; average value [330, net [300, including 70 acres of glebe, with attenrumce, 57; William Arthnr Harrison, ma.s.ter; Mrs. residence, in the gift of the Crown, and held since 1892 A. J. Harris'On, mistress by the Rev. Harry Ernmitt Clark. The Ecclesiastical There i!! also a night school in connection with the Was- Commissioners are impropriators of the great tithe. leyan school; average attendance, 45 Here is a 1Vesleyan chapel, built in 1837. A Conveyance to Haxey Stat.ion.-Omnibus, dai:y detached church burial ground of half an acre Water Conveyance to Hull, Keadby & Gainsborough & was acquired in 1883, but is used only for burials intermediate stations on tha Trent.-Gainsborough solemnized in accordance with the rites of the United Steam Packet Co. Limited, daily Church of England. A Cemetery of I! acres was formed Carriers.-G. & J. Fletcher, to Gainsborough. tues. ; in 1881, witrh a mortuary chapel, at a. cost of £7oo; and is lVilliam :Brown & Al'lthur J. Jennings, to DoncaiSter, fri.. under the control of the parish council. A fair & G. & J. Fletcher, to Haxey station, daily and also a market were once held here. There is a warping drain which enters the river here, go feet wide and Carriers by Water. 9 miles long, and flooding 700 acres. H&e are almshouses, Gainsborough John Snowden, tues. thurs... & sat built in x86o, and endowed by the late Miss Frances Hull John Frewin & .Albert Leggott, mon. &. returns Sandars, in ·tihe year x86o, for six poor women, who receive 1 on wed Saul 1\fr.s. Clayphan Fred.carpntr. & wheelwrght OWSTO~. Todd Miss Ciayphan William, farmer ClMk Rev. Harry Emmitt (vicar), COMMERCIAL. Cook J oseph, farmer Vicarage Broadbent William, farmer Dawson John, farmer Co:quhoun Fredk. A..llan, Owston ha:I Brown John., farmer Dixon Ephraim, farmer Fletcher John, Croft h()me Brown William, carrier Duffield E:izabeth (Mr&. ), farmer Humphrey Wheatley Carter Thomas, farmer Farr Richard, farmer Swift Rev. Luke Lewi$ (Wesleyan), Carter William, farmer Farr Thomas, farmer Trent villa. Cemetery (Robert Holmes, clerk) Fletcher John, farmer & carrier .