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LIKOOLNSHIBB. 



LINCOLNSHIRE. 



I difefly of one ctrvet apnrdi of 2 milM loni;. The ohuroh u 

 ia tb* pacpeadictiUr itjle. The Weil«7ao, New Connexion, and 

 PrimitiTa IteUiodnta and Baptiato have plaeee of wonhip. The Free 

 school waa founded fay Samaal Waaley, raotor of Kpworth, the father 

 n/ John Waaley, tba fcondar of lletbodbm, who waa bom here. 

 There ia a National adiooL Tncatla; ia the markat dny : two fiiira 

 ara held in the year. The drentng of hemp and flux, rope-makiog, 

 ■mI malting, an uia chief employments. 



falkmQkam, or PolttHgham, population 768, ia 27 milaa S. by E. 

 from Lincoln. Hare waa anciently a caatle, but only the moata and 

 mounda remain. The streeta are clean and well pared. Tlio church 

 ia large and baadmma, chiefly of perpendicular character ; the chancel 

 waa lebniH in 1825 ; the tower baa eight pinnacles and a rich battle- 

 mant. There are a ohapel for Wesleyan Methodists, an Endowed 

 sdiool, and a aarings bank. There ia here a small jail for the southern 

 dirision of the Parts of Kesteren. The market is on Thursday ; there 

 na 6 yearly bin. Near the town are several springs, one of them 

 ehalybeata. 



Kirton, or Kirlon in LinStey, population 1948, is situated on the 

 slope of the range of hilla which traverses the eastern side of the 

 oonnty, about 18 miles N. by W. from Lincoln. Kirton belongs to 

 the Doehy of Cornwall The Duchy Court-house on Kirton Qreen is 

 a aaat brick ediiioe. The church is large, and has a oonxiderable 

 portion of good early English work. The Wealeyan and Primitive 

 Mctbodiaia and Baptiata have places of worship. The Free school, 

 founded in the 19th year of Elizabeth, has been since 1820 a National 

 aohool. It has an income from endowment of alxrat 90^ a year, and 

 two exhibitions, which however do not appear to have ever been 

 claimed. In 1863 it bad about 100 scholars. There ia an Infant 

 aehooL The qnarter^settsions for the Parts of Lindsay are held here 

 by adjoamment; and there is a house of correction. A market is held 

 on Friday for com ; a cattle market every altemata Saturday for 8 

 weeks in spring and autumn ; and two great cattle fairs are held on 

 July 18th, and Daeeraber llth. Brewing and malting are carried on. 



iMng ^itm, or Salton 8t Mary, population of the hamlet 4416, 

 about S miles from the sea coast; occiipiea a site to which some 

 oenturiaa ago the tide flowed. The market is on Friday : fairs are 

 hdd twice a year. The church is an ancient structure, with a square 

 tower snnnonnted by a wooden spire, which is a useful land-mark for 

 aailon. The Wesleyan and Primitive Metbodiata, General Baptists 

 and Indrpendentii, have places of worship. The Free school, founded 

 in H92, was le-founded by Que<-n Klizabeth; the school-room has 

 been recently rebuilt In the parish are Natioual schools and a parish 

 achooL Brewing, malting, tanning, and machine-making employ some 

 of the inhabitants. Sutton-bridge, or Waahway, affords a passage 

 across the outfall of the river Nene, on the road between Sntton St, 

 Jfary and King's Lynn, Norfolk. 



Market Stuen, population 2110, is situated on a little brook, the 

 Raw or Rasen, which joins the Ancbolme, 19 miles N.N.E. from 

 Lincoln. The town ooneista chiefly of one long alraet, wbi<^ ia ogroaaad 

 by the Sheffield and Liucolnabire railway. The pariah eboreh is com- 

 iDodioua. The Roman Catholics and Wesleyan and Primitive Metiiod- 

 ists Lave chapels : there are a National school, and some almahonsea. 

 The market on Tuesday is well frequented : a fair is held on September 

 26th. 



tfattiAf, population 1057, is sitoated oti the Sonth Cliffe range of 

 hilla, 9 milea 8. from Lincoln. The market haa been long disooutinued. 

 An ancient market croaa, covered with a spiral roof, ia still standing. 

 The ehorofa, which is putly early English and partly decorated, haa a 

 large and bandsoma tower. The Wealeyan Methodists have a neat 

 diapel. There is a Free school A fair is held on October nth, 

 chiefly for SK'ine. 



SaliJItct, ur SallJUct ilattn, population 404, is 88 miles E.N.E. from 

 Unooln. The Wealeyan Methodists have a chapel here. Saltfleat 

 bad formerly a market which has long been disused. A fair ia held 

 on Oetober Srd. Soma good springs are near the town. Saltfleat is 

 raaorle<l to in summer for ae^-bathing. Oysters are found in abundance 

 offthaahor*. 



tkrin ttk ntil , or Swbuttad, population 2044, is 29 milea 8.R. from 

 Lineotn. A Ciataraian abbey was founded here in 1 184, by Robert de 

 ChwM; in tU* monaatery King John spiwars to have rtsted after his 

 ••■P* ta crossing the Waah, a few dnys previous to his death at 

 'Mwnsk. Swineshead, although now about t) milea from the sea, waa 

 fermtriy a port, and the sea ilowed up to the marketplace, where 

 waa a harbour. The market held on Thunday ia now nearly 

 -*- A fair Is held on October 2nd. The ehnrch is a handsome 

 partly decorated and partly parpandioular in style, with a 

 lofty spire. The Wesleyan Metliodista and BaptisU have places of 

 •wmm^ There is an Endowed Free aohool, founded in 1720. Near 

 the abbey is a circular Uanisfa encampment, 200 feet in diameter, 

 w i uu ndaJ by a double moat 



T ^nuA M, popuUlioii as7, on the little river Bain, about 19 milea 

 &Ki from Linor>ln, had formerly a strong castle. A maaaiva square 

 brick Wwar, 100 f.et hWh, built by Cnraiwen, treaaurer of the 

 su t MiM i *o king Heniy VI., ia in tolerabU preaerratioiL Tha town 

 ia wmA 4ac«yed. Tba abureh, which waa fonuarly aoUagiata, la ■ 

 spacious perpendicular edifice, in the form of a eroM. Theia ai« 

 chapelt fur Weleyan Methodltia and Paptista, a Natioual school, and 



an Endowed almshouse for 10 poor widows. The Homoaatla navigfr 

 tion passes through the town. Boat-building, malting, and brtwlng 

 are carried on. The market ia held on Tburviay, and fkira ara held in 

 May and September. 



Wainfietl, about 38 milea E.8.B. from Lincoln, popuktion of tha 

 lau-ishea of Wainfleet All Saints, St Mary, and St.. Thomas or 

 Northolme, 82&7 in 1841 ; in 1851 it waa 2255. Waina«rt is suppoaad 

 to have been a Roman station, the Vainouas of the geographer Ravan- 

 una. The haven was anciently frequented by ahipa, Irat ia now only 

 used for small craft The town is suppoeeil to have atood formerly 

 higher up the creek, where the old church of AUSainta atands. Wain- 

 fleet oonsists chiefly of one street, with a market-place in the centra. 

 A new church in the Italian style, the coet of which waa partly defrayed 

 bf the commia»ioners for building churohea, stands on a site given 

 by Colonel Sibthorp. St. Mary's church is much decayed. Tha 

 Wealeyan and Primitive Methodists and Quakers have pfatosa of wor- 

 ship. The Free Oraramar school, founded by William of Waynflete, 

 bishop of Winchester, in the 15th century, has an income from 

 endowment of 70/. a year, and is free to 30 boys ; tba number of 

 scholars iu 1853 was 45. There are also an Endowed Free school, sup- 

 ported by the governors of Bethlehem Hospital, a British school, and 

 a savings bank. I'he market is held on Saturday, bat is aluoet disused ; 

 fairs are held in May and October. 



Wraghy, population tilO, ia 11 miles E.N.E. from Lincoln. The 

 town is pleaaautly situated, and contains some good houses. The 

 church, a handsome edi&ce, was built in 1887 l^ Mr. Turoor, the 

 proprietor of the town. The Wesleyan Methodists have a chapel. 

 Hansard's Free school for boys, founded in 1686, had 66 scholars in 

 1852. There is also a Free school for girla In the town are idma- 

 housea for six widows of clergymen and six widows of laymen. Thurs- 

 day ia the market-day ; fairs for cattle are held on Holy Thursday and 

 September 29th. 



The following are some of the more important villages, with tha 

 population of the parishes in 1851 : — 



Alkburoagh, or AM>orough, population 466, on the right bank of 

 the river Trent, near its confluence with the Ouse, where the com- 

 bined river takes the name of the Hnmber, about 18 miUs N.W. hj 

 N. from Olanford Hrigg ; has an ancient church with a tower, chapeis 

 for Wesleyan and Primitive Methodists, a girls school, and some alms- 

 houses. On a hill near the village a Roman oamp and labyrinth have 

 been traced. Ancasler, the Roman statiou Causenna;, population 589, 

 is situated on the Ermine-street, about 7 miles N.N.E. from Orantham. 

 The church is a handsome building of the early English and decorated 

 stylea. Roman coins have been found here in nuch quantities as to make 

 the sale of them a source of profit to some of the inbabitanta Bardiuy, 

 popnUtion 1329, on the left bank of the Witham, 10 miles E. by 8. 

 from Lincoln, has a church, a chapel for Wesleyan Methodists, and a 

 Free school An abbey founded here about the close of the 7th cen- 

 tury, was deatroyed by the Danes, but was refounded by Oilbert, earl 

 of Lincoln, in the reign of William I. £arr<nc-upoii-Humber, popula- 

 tion 2283, about S miles S. by £. from Barton, has an ancient diurdi, 

 which has been recently repaired, and a new roof placed on it The 

 tower is of later date tlian the body of the church. A convent was 

 founded here by St Chad. A mound, called the Castle, is about a 

 mile nortfa-weet from the village; there are also several tumuli 

 Battinffham, population 892, 9 milea 8.S.W. from • Lincoln, has an 

 ancient church, the tower of which waa rebuilt iu 1782, and a lanra 

 chancel added. Some old pictures which were found on the wima 

 have bean restored. There are chapels for Wealeyan and Primitive 

 Methodists. Malting and brewing ara carried on. Btckingkam, popui 

 latiott 450, distant 14 milea S.S.W. from Lincoln. The church is a 

 handsome building of the early Bngliah style, and has a fine tower 

 with eight pinnacles. It haa of hits years received extenaive repain ; 

 a oeautiful Norman doorway on tha north side is now closed op. 

 There are a ohapel for Wealeyan Methodists, and schools supported by 

 the Established Church and by the Wealeyans. BtUon, population 

 1788, in tlie Isle of Axholme, 14 miles N. by W. from Oainslxirougb, 

 has a handsome and oomoiodious gothic church, and chapels for 

 Wesleyan and Primitive Methodists. A fair is held iu October, chiefly 

 for flax. There are some parochial charities. About a mile from tka 

 village is Belton Hall, the seat of Karl hrownlow. Long Bttuttmgttn, 

 8 miles N.W. from Orantham, close to the Nottinghamshire border, 

 population 1100, consists chiefly of one street on the road from 

 (Jimutham to Newark. The church, a fine gotliic stracture, has a 

 tower at the weat end. There are national aohools. Quarries of flrea- 

 stona and lime, lime-kilos, and corn-mills - afford employment, A 

 priory of Cistercian monka waa formerly at thi> place. HUUngbormtgh, 

 population lb48, about 8 miles E. from Kalkiugham, has an elegant 

 stouo church in the decorated style, with a tower and spire 150 feet 

 high. There are chapelt for Wealeyan Methoilista and ISaptii<t«, and 

 an Endowed Free school for 26 boya Boolhby, or Boothby Uraffo, 

 population 208, on the Cliffe range of bills and on the Eruiiue-street, 

 8 miles S. from Lincoln. The panih church, a neat gothic structure, 

 eraoted in 1842, oonaitts of a nave, ohaucel, and a tower. In 1805 the 

 Bialiop of Lineoln areeted here a Urge oaatellatad mansion, which he 

 afterwards preaeotad to Edward I., Mid which served as a place of 

 confinement for the King of France, when he was a prisoner in 1369. 

 Of tha lamaiaa, whiah ara extansive, a poitiou is inoorporated with 



