DIRECTORY.] T.JNCOLNSHIRE. d-I{A~'tl!AM:. 179 as alao the engineering and a~r iculturnl implement works drill shed; the magazine will hold 75,000 "rounds of ammn• of Messrs. R. Hornsby and Sons Limited, which employ nition ; at the sides are officers' quarters and stabling~ the over 1,200 men. Here are two breweries and a corn mill, second court was added in 1872, and includes houses for 30 and malting and brick.making are likewise carried on. men, an hospital for 20 patients, and other offices, and a HouoHTON, which adjoins Spittlegate on the south-east, reading room ; the adjutant's residence, detached from the and WAI.TON, adjoining it on the south, are hamlets ; at the barracks, was also erected in 1872 : a large field adjoining former is a paper mill. The reservoir of the Grantham is used for drill purposes. The manor was purchased of the Water Works Company, situated on the Ponton road, will Rolt family by Sir Dudley Ryder, who was Lord Chief hold 700,000 gallons of water. The Earl of Dysart is lord Justice of the King's Bench in 1754, and is now tbe property of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is various, of the Right Hon. the Earl of Harrowby P.C. /who is also the hills being composed chiefly of limestone ; subsoil, principal landowner ~ the ancestors of the present lord were mostly clay. The chief crops are barley, wheat and turnips. long seated at Harrowby Hall, now a farm-house in the The area is 2,052 acres. occupation of Mr. Thomas Newton. The soil is mostly Parish Clerk, Spittlegate, Joseph Wbaley. creech land, and the subsoil on the hills stone, and in the vale blue clay. The chief crops are turnips, barley, seeds Little Gonerby (Manthorpe-cum-Little Gonerby) and wheat. The area is 1 ,453A. 3R. 2IP. adj ins the borough of Grantham on the north, and is united with it for ecclesiastical purposes. The Earl of New Somerby is a. part of the parish of Somerby, Dysart, who is lnrd of the manor, and Earl Brownlow P.c. adjoining Spittlegate, and now forms a populous portion are the chief landowners. The area is 700 acres. of the borough of Grantham. The iron mission church of Harrowby is a township, adjoining the borough of St. Anne was erected in 1884, at a cost of £6oo, and will Grantham on the east, and with which it is ecclesiastically seat 350 persons. The cemetery for Grantham. Spittlegate, connected. The barracks for the Royal South Lincolnshire Houghton and Walton and Manthorpe-cum-Little Gonerby, Militia, forming the 4th battalion of the Lincolnshire regi­ opened on May 1st, 1857, is almost entirely in this district, ment, were erected here when Grantham became their and covers an area of 9 acres; 3 of which were added in head quarters. The building is of blue stone, in a castellated 1872 ~ the total cost was about £1,2001 inclusive of two style, and consists of two courts, the first of which was mortuary chapels connected by an archway. The cemetery erected in 1858, at a cost of £3,640; over the gateway is a is under the control of a Burial Board of 20 members, to band room ; the rest of the front comprises an armoury for which the parish of Grantham contributes 9 members, 1,020 stand of arms, a guard room, a prisoners' room with Spittlegate 7, and Little Gonerby 4· The inhabitants of • 3 cells, 2 store rooms, tailors' shop &c. ; in the centre is the New Somerby have permission to bury here on payment of parade ground, 6o yds. by 401 and at the end ~ covered double fees. Official Establishments, Local Institutions &c. POST, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Government Annuity & Insur­ List of Places in the Delivery of Grantham :-Allington ance Office, Market place.-Frederi~k John North, post­ 8.0. Ancaster S.O. Aisby, Barkston S.O. Barrowby 8.0. master. Hours of attendance 7 a. m. to 8 p. m. Box closes, Hassingthorpe, Belton 8.0. Belvoir Castle, *Benningten for Cliff road, Colsterworth & the villages in the walking Long S.O. Bitchfield 8.0. Boothby S.O. Brandon, Bran.. postdeli\·ery, 5.30 a.rp.. ; Londou & places beyond, Boston, stone S.O. Buckminster S.O. Burton Coggles S.O. Carl.. Biggleswade, Huntingdon, Bourn, Hatfieldt Hitchin, New ton S. 0. Casthorpe, *Caythorpe S. 0. *Colsterworth 8.0. Barnet, Peterboroug"h, Stamford, St. N eots, Spalding, *Corby S.O. Counthorpe, Creeton, Croxton S.O. *Denton Stevenage, Sandy, Welwyn, Derby, Birmingham, Leices­ S.O. Doddington Dry, Easton, Eaton, Foston, Freiston, ter & Nottingham, u. 10 a.m. (extra ~d. ~tamp x 1.15 a. m. ; Fulbeck S.O. Gelston, Gipple, Great Gonerby ~.0. letters registered until 10.40 a. m.); London & places Gunby, Hanbeck, Hanby, Harlaxton S.O. Harrowby, beyond, Cambridge Huntingdon, Royston, St. Neots; Harston S.O. Honington S.O. Hough S.O. Hougham, Hitchin, 2.50 p.m. (extra !d. stamp 3 p.m. ; letters regis­ Humby Great & Little, Hungerton, Haydor, lngoldsby tered until 2.20 p.m.); Bawtry, Brigg, Bradford (York­ B.O. Jericho, Kelby, *Knipton S.O. *Leadenham 8.0. shire), Doncaster, Dewsbury, Gainsboro', Halifax, Har­ Lenton, Little Bytham S.O. Lobthorpe, Londonthorpe, rogate, Hull, Leeds, Newark, Retford, Selby, Scarboro', Manthorpe S.O. Marston S.O. Navenby 8.0. Nonnanton Sheffield, Work sop, Wakefield, York, Nottingham, Mid­ S.O. Oasby, Ponton GreatS. 0. Ponton Little S. 0. Rops­ land Counties & West of England, 3.10 p.m. (extra id­ ley S.O. Sedgebrooke S.O. Sewstern, Skillington 8.0. stamp 3.15 p.m.; letters registered until2.4op.m.); Lon­ Somerby S.O. Stainby 8.0. Stoke-Rochford S.O. Strox­ don & places beyond, also CDntinental mails, 4 p. m. (extra ton, Sudbrooke S.O. Swayfield S.O. Syston S.O. Temple id- 8tamp 4· TO p. m. ; letters registered until 3.30) ; Bir­ Bruer, Thistleton, Welbourn S.O. Welby S.O. Wellingore mingham, Dudley, Liverpool, Manchester, Cheshire, S.O. Westborough, Westby, Willoughby West 8.0. Wils­ Cumberland, Ireland, North Wale!!, North West of Eng­ ford, Witham North, Witham South S.O. Woodnook, land, Scotland, Shropshire, Staffordshire & Westmorland, Woolsthorpe S. 0. Wyville. Mails for these places are London, Peterborough, Grimsby, Sedgebrook, Allington & dispatched at 6. 5 to 6. 15 a. m Eastern Counties, 7 p.m. (extra !d. stamp 7.15 p.m.; let­ Places marked thus • are telegraph offices (7) ters registered until 6.30 p.m.) ; Derby, Goole, Hull, SPITTLEGATE PosT & M. 0. 0., S. B. & .Annuity & Insur­ Nottingham, the Midland & Western Counties, 7·45 p.m. ance Office, London road.-Benjamin Tindale Sumner, (extra !d. stamp 7.5o·p.m.; letters registered until7.15 postmaster. Box closes at 10.40 a. m. 2.30 & 7-35 p.m. on p.m.) ; London & places beyond, all days except satur­ week days only days, 7·45 p.m. (extra ~d. stamp 7.50 p.m. ; letters regis­ NEw SOMERBY PosT OFFICE, Dudley road.-Box closes at tered until 7.15 p.m.); London, Peterborough, York, 8.30 a.m. 10.50 a.m. 2.40, 6.40 & 8 p.m. week days Goole, Grimsby, Hull & East Lincolnshire, 10 p.m. (letters only registered until 8 p.m.) LoNDON ROAD PosT Ok'FICE.-Hammoml Leake Brox­ PARCELS DrsPATCHED.-London & places beyond, 11 a. m. ; holme, receiver. Box closes 5, 8.30 & 10.40 a.m. 2.30, East & South Lincolnshire, Peterborough, Leicester, 6.45 & 8 p.m. on week days, & 6 p.m. sunday London & places beyond, 12 a. m. ; Birmingham, Dudley, LITTLE GoNERBY PosT 0I<'FICE, No. I North parade.­ Liverpool, Manchester, North ·west of England, Ireland Thomas Parker, receiver. Box closes 5, 8.30. & II a.m. & Scotland, 7 p.m. ; all other places 7-45 p.m 2.50. 6.45 & 8.30 p.m. week days, & 6 p.m. sunday MoNEY ORDERs---granted & paid from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m Registered letters for London & places beyond sent on satur­ Member of Parliament. days should be posted in time for the dispatch at 7 p.m Mal col m Low esq. D. L., J P. Clatto, Cupar Fife, N.B. ; & 22 Sundays, for all the other places named above, 7 p. m. ; Roland gardens & Carlton & Union clubs, London s w London & Peterborough 8 p.m. ; no attendance on sun­ Returning Officer, The Mayor days after Io a. m LxnER CARRIERS leave Grantham at 6.15 o'clock every County Magistrates for Spittlegate Petty Sessional morning for the following villages :-Londonthorpe, Division. Welby, Oasby, Aisby & Haydor, Barrowby & Casthorpe, Welby-Gregory Sir William Earle hart. D.L. Denton manor, Gonerby, Foston, Long Benington, Hough, Gelstone, Gran tham (chairman) Marston, Hougham, Doddington & Westborough, Brownlow Earl of P.C., D.L. Belton house, Grantham Somerby, Boothby, Bassingthorpe, Westby, Bitchfield, Cholmeley Sir Hugh Arthur Henry b<J.rt. D.L. Easton park, lngoldsby, Humby & Ropsley, Harlaxton, Denton, Crox­ Grantham ton, Belvoir, Woolsthorpe, Harston, Knipton, Branston & Thorold Sir John Henry bart. D.L. Syston park, Grantha.m Eaton, Little Ponton, Great Ponton, Stoke & Colster­ Hornsby James esq. Stapleford park, Melton Mowbray ll'orth, Manthorpe, Belton, Barkston, Carlton, Sndbrook, Hornsby William esq. Elsham honse, Grantham Ancaster, Normanton, Welbourn, Wellingore, Caythorpe, Johnston Rnbert Henry esq. The Bank, Westgate, Granthm Folbeck, Leadenham & Navenby Longstaffe l\iajor William, Little Ponton hall, Grantham t.Ix. 12* .