BoAr: Baston: White 1882

BoAr: White 1882: Baston

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White’s Trade Directory: Summary of Baston, 1882

Baston is a large, neat, and pleasant village, on the Lincoln and Peterborough Road, 5 miles S. of Bourn, and 3 miles N.W. by N. of Market Deeping. It is in the Parts of Kesteven, Bourn union, county court district, and petty sessional division, Ness wapentake and rural deanery, Baston polling district of South Lincolnshire, and Lincoln archdeaconry. Its rateable value is £4416. Its population increased from 457 in 1801, to 763 in 1881; and it contains 3520 acres of land, including a large tract of Deeping Fen, called Baston Common, now drained and cultivated, and extending four miles E.N.E. of the village. Lord Aveland is lord of the manor, but a great part of the soil belongs to Lord Kesteven, Lord Chesham, Baroness Willoughby de Eresby, Mr. Whatoff, and smaller freeholders and copyholders. The CHURCH (St John the Baptist) consists of nave with aisles, chancel, south porch, and tower with five bells. It is of mixed Decorated and Perpendicular architecture; and in 1858, the east window was enriched with stained glass, in memory of G. Norton, Esq., and his two sons. The living is a vicarage, valued in K.B. at £6 1s. 2d., and now at £231, in the patronage of the Lord Chancellor, and incumbency of the Rev. Henry Prior. There is a school held in a building erected by public subscription, on a plot of ground given and conveyed by the late Lord Willoughby de Eresby, in 1863, to the minister and churchwardens, and their successors, for the above purpose. It is attended by about 100 children. The poor have £3 from land at Langtoft, left in 1830, by the Rev. J. Mossop; the interest of £100, given by Lucy Price; a rent-charge of 26s. left by W. Ireland, in 1717; another rent-charge of the same amount, out of land at Little Weldon, given by the Finch and Mostin families; and an annuity of £10, left by R.S.Norton, Esq., to be distributed in coals. The Wesleyan Chapel, built in 1847, is now used as a Sunday School; a new chapel, with accommodation for 300 persons, having been erected by subscription in 1877, at a cost of £1000.

Letters received at 8 a.m., viâ Market Deeping, which is the nearest Post and Money Order Office. There is a Wall Letter Box, which is cleared at 6 p.m. Thurlby, on the Bourne and Essendine Railway, is the nearest Station.

Andrew William, mason

Atter Allen, baker

Bell John, beerhouse

Belton Smith, toll collector & bootmaker

Bland Mr Robert

Boor Martin, vict. Red Lion, & farmer

Brudenell Joseph, farmer

Cave William, farmer, Brook house

Clark Arthur, cattle dealer

Clarke George, pig dealer

Cole Charles, farmer

Cole John, jun. butcher

Cole Mrs Sarah, vict. Black Horse

Cooke John, steam thrashing machine proprietor

Dring Thomas, porkbutcher & thatcher

Edis Edward, carrier

Fracey John, confectioner

Gray William, farmer, Fen

Hill John, coal and potatoe dealer

Howitt Thomas, porkbutcher

Hudson Richard, miller

Lambley William, bootmaker

Lenton William, butcher

Marriott Richard, farmer, Manor hs

Marsh James, blacksmith

Morris Frederick, baker

Moss Henry Stephen, schoolmaster

Neal Mrs Elizabeth

Pateman Charles, shopkeeper

Pearson John, tailor and draper

Peasgood Aquilla

Percival John, vict. White Horse

Pick John Joseph, farmer, Fen

Pick Thomas, farmer

Pickering Mrs Ann, grocer & draper

Pope Thomas, carpenter

Prior Rev Henry, vicar

Ringham John, farmer

Rosbe Mr John James

Rosling John, vict. New Inn, & farmer

Sands Clifford Jas. saddler & parish clk

Scampion Thomas, carpenter

Shotliff Robert, victualler, Wheatsheaf, and grocer and baker

Skeath Miss Caroline, shopkeeper

Stafford Henry, mason

Stanger Owen, saddler

Stanton Jph. shopkpr. steam thrashing machine proprietor and carrier

Stephens Mrs Sarah

Stevenson William, butcher

Storry Mrs. seminary¹

Swann Edward, bootmaker

Swann Thos. marine store dlr & carrier

Thurlby John, farmer, Baston hall

Turner William, cottager

Wallis William, blacksmith

Carriers- Bourn, Joseph Stanton, Thurs.; Market Deeping, Thomas Swann, Weds. and Sats.; Stamford, Edward Edis, Mons. and Fris.

Footnote

1. ‘Seminary’ is a word arising from the concept of sowing seed, and is used either literally or metaphorically. In this case, the likelihood is that it is a literal use and that Mrs. Storry raised plants from seed or perhaps cuttings. This would be an important trade in a place like Baston, where plants such as cabbages, cauliflowers, broccoli, lettuce, leeks and onions would need to be raised, then planted out as field crops on the silty or humic soils, as appropriate to the crop. This appears to be a late use of the word in this, literal way; the Oxford English Dictionary’s latest note of it comes from 1829.

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