1 478 WICKENBY. LINCOLNSHIRE. [KELLY 8 sittings. The register dates from the year ISS8. The : WESTLABY is a hamlet three quarters of a mile south. living is a rectory, gross yearly value £330, with residence, Parish Clerk, William Richardson. incl~ding 36 acres of glebe, ~n the gift of the :aev. Charles PosT 0FFICE.-William Skelton, receiver. Letters arriTe 1 Nevrle liLA. hon. canon of L~ncoln, and held smce, I878 by 1 via Wragby at 9_30 a.m. & dispatched at 3 p.m. Wragby the Re_v. James Ell~tson Brgland 11r.:A· of Queens Colle~e, I is the nearest money order & telegraph office Cambndge. There rs a Free Methodist chapel. The prm- . cipal landownms are Emest Richard Charles Cust esq. Pnbhc Elementary School, bmlt m 1842 & rebmlt m 1879, ~t n.L. of .Arthingworth, Northants, and Charles George Gill- a _cost of abou~ £2oo, defrayed by E. R. C. Cust_esq.: rt yatt esq. of Wickenby Manor; the latter is lord of the manor. will hold 8_o children; average attendance, 56; Mrss Cla.ra The soil is stiff loam; subsoil, white chalky clay. The chief Rogers, mrstress crops are wheat, barley, oats and turnips. The area is Railway Station, Michael Joseph Richardson, station master 2,003 acres; rateable value, £2,398; the population in 1881 CARRIER.-Whittaker, to Market Rasen, tues. & Lincoln was 269. on fri Bigland Rev. Canon James Elletson M. A. Doughty William, carpenter Marrows Frederick, farmer Rectory Dring William, cabinet maker MarwoodJohn, threshing machine owner Gillyatt Charles George, Manor house Finch George, farmer MarwoodWm. threshing machine owner COMMERCIAL. Gillyatt Chas. Geo. farmer, Manor frm Mettam James, farmer Baggaley John Wood, farmer Goodman Richard, blacksmith Skelton Wm. shopkeeper, Post office Bourne George, farmer, Westlaby Greenfield Thomas Mason, farmer Usher Alfred Henry, farmer, Field ho Cawkwell Edmund, shopkpr. & coal dlr Johnson George Dear, farmer Whittaker Edward, carrier Coulson George, farmer, Westlaby Laud James, boot & shoe maker Wilks Richard, farmer WIGTOFT is a parish, 3 miles south-east-by-south residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Lincoln, and held from Swineshead, 2 north-west from Algarkirk station on since 1870 by the Rev. Joseph Heath M.A. of Corpus Christi the East Lincolnshire branch of the Great Northern rail- college, Cambridge, J.P. Here is a ·wesleyan chapel, built way, and 7 south-west-by-south from Boston, in the in 1862. There are several charities connected with thi! Holland division of the county, parts of Holland, in Kirton parish, amounting to £48, the most important being the wapentake, petty sessional division of Kirton and Skirbeck, Blisbury gift : the whole sum is distributed. The principal Boston union and county court district, rural deanery of landowners are the Earl Brownlow, lord Iieut. P.C., J.P. Rt. North Holland No. I, archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln. Hon. Henry Chaplin P.C., M.P., D.L., J.P. of Blankney Hall, The church of SS. Peter and Paul is an ancient building of who is lord of the manor, Capt. William Craufurd Hurrell, stone, in the Norman, Early English, Decorated and Perpen- of Burgh-in-the-Marsh, Mrs. William Barton, of Spilsby dicular styles, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave of four road, Boston, and Miss Cook-Holland, and there are many bays, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower, small freeholders. The soil is loam ; subsoil, loam and with small spire, containing 5 bells and a clock : the oldest clay. The chief crops are wheat, beans, potatoes, celery, portion of this church is a richly ornamented Late Norman with a great portion of rich pasture land. The area is 3,444 window in the wester!). face of the tower: the porch exhibits acres; rateable value, £4,373 ; the population in 188r was portions of Norman and later work : the nave and aisles 672. belong to the first half of the 14th century: the lower part of BuRTOFT, I mile south, and HoFTLET STow, about I mile the tower is Early English, but the upper stage and angle west, are hamlets. The portion of the Fen allotted to this turret are Perpendicular, and to this period also belong the parish at the Inclosure is 7 miles north from the church. chancel and clerestory: portions of a lofty Perpendicular rood DHAINAGE MARSH, formerly extra-parochial, is now a screen exist, as well as the entrance to the rood loft, and parish in Boston union and consists of one farm of 45 acres, there is a good Jacobean pulpit; in the south aisle is a of the rateable value of £46. piscina, and some fragments of old glass, including a quar- PosT 0FFICE.-Joseph Mitchell, receiver. Letters arrive tered shield of France and England, two dragons and a lion's through Boston at 6 a. m. ; dispatched at 7.25 p.m. The bead, jessant de lis, remain in the windows: in the chancel nearest money order & telegraph office is at Sutterton are two chairs, partially constructed from old carved bench This parish is contributory to Kirton School Board, electing ends: there are 412 sittings. The register dates from the I member year r6r8. There formerly existed here a very valuable book Free School (mixed), founded in 1835, & endowed with [40 of churchwardens' accounts relating to this church, 1484- yearly, called the Blishnry charity; th~re are now go 1631, the contents of which, previous to its loss, were printed scholars; John Thomas Clarke, master; Miss Clarke, in Mr. John Nicholls' "Antient Manners in England," pub- assistant mistress lished in 1797, pp. 77-87; 195-230. The living is a vicarage, CARRIERS TO BosTON.-William Smith & George Sickley, net :yearly value £252, including 139 acres of glebe, with wed. & sat Bowser Frederick E Cutforth Henry Proctor, farmer Parr Frederick George, farmer, Burtoft Heath Rev. Joseph M.A., J.P. Vicarage Dye .Alfred, carpenter & builder Porter Jn. Golden Ball P.H. Fen houses Oliver Edward, Burtoft Fletcher George, farmer, Easthorpe Preston Joseph, farmer Walton Mrs Garratt George, farmer, Bank Rayson Thomas, farmer, Asperton COMMERCIAL. Garratt Isaac, Golden Fleece P.H. & Hayson ·william, farmer Allan John, farmer shoe maker Robinson Joseph, farmer, Asperton Borkwood Elizabeth Ann (Mrs.) & Daw- Goodacre John, farmer, Fen Hobinson N athaniel, grocer & draper son Eleanor (Miss), dress makers Hardy Henry, carpenter Sharpe Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer, Bank Bowser Frederick E. farmer & grazier I Hides ThomasRichard,farmer,Asperton Sharpe John, farmer, Hoftlet Brown John, farmer, Fen houses Jackson John ·william, farmer Sharpe Joshua, brewer, Hoftlet Burton Atkin, farmer, Fen Johnson John, farmer, Hoftlet Stow Sickley George, carrier Burton Benington, farmer King John, farmer, Fen houses Smith Albert Anthony, farmer, As- Hurton John Anthony, farmer King ·william, farmer, Fishmere end perton house Carrotte Frederick, farmer, Paradise Lake John (exors. of), farmers, Fen Smith William, farmer, Bank Cartwright Thomas, farmer, Asperton Lake "''illiam, farmer, Fen Smith William, carrier & blacksmith Christian William, Swan P.H.& butcher Massey George, farmer, Fen Stubley Edward, farmer, Fen houses Cheesman Da¥id, farmer, Fen Mitchell Joseph, shopkeeper, Post office Vinter Charles, market gardener Cox John Robert, farmer Oliver Edward, farmer, Hurtoft Waiters Harry, baker Craven Brewster, farmer Parker Joseph, blacksmith, Bank Woods George, farmer WILD MORE is a parish, formed in 188o under the Act church, erected in 1816 out of the revenues of the Fen Chapel 44 Vict. c. xv1i. and comprises the Fen allotments of West estates, is a small and plain edifice of red brick, in the Per­ Ash by, Horncastle, Mareham-on-the-Hill, Moorhy, Thimble- pendicular style, consisting of nave only, with an open by, High Toynton, Low Toynton and Wood Enderby, and western belfry containing one bell, and has 150 sittings. detached parts of Bolingbroke, Coningsby, Haltham, Rough- The register dates from the year 1818. The living is a vicar­ ton, Tattershall, Tattershall Thorpe (parts of), Thorn ton-le- age, net yearly value £3oo, with residence, in the gift of the Fen, Toynton All Saints and Wilksby; the ecclesiastical Bishop of Lincoln, and held since 1877 by the Rev. William parish comprises the civil parishes of Langriville, Thornton- Fitz-Harry Curtis, who resides at Langriville. There is a. le-Fen and Wildmore and parts of the civil parishes of Con- Wesleyan chapel at New York, and a Primitive Methodist ingsby, Mareham-le-Fen, Revesby and Tumby: it is in the chapel at Scrubb Hill. The principal landowners are Sir South Lindsey division of the county, parts of Lindsey, Henry James Hawley bart. of Noove Lea, Brighton, Sussex, union, petty sessional division and county court district of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners and Messrs. William Sin­ Horncastle, rural deanery of North Holland Nos. 1 and 2, clair and Cook Holdershaw. The soil is clay; subsoil, gravel. and archdeaconry and dwcese of Lincoln. The village of . The chief crops are wheat, oats and barley. The area is NEw YoRK is 11 miles south from Horncastle, 8 north-west 1 4,o66 acres; rateable value, £4,320; the population in 1881 from Boston and 2t from Dogdyke station on the Lincoln j' was 689 in the civil, and 1,587 in the ecclesiastical parish. and Boston branch of the Great Northern railway. froghall Parish Clerk, David Kent. .