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Entry from Kelly's Trade Directory for 1900
ROXBY is an ancient village and Parish, including Risby and Sawcliffe hamlets, and pleasantly situated, commanding an extensive view of the River Humber, 4 miles north-west from Appleby station on the South Yorkshire branch of the Great Central (late M.S.&L.) railway, 9 west-south-west from Barton and 1 mile south-west from Winterton, in the North Lindsey division of the county, parts of Lindsey, northern division of Manley wapentake, petty sessional division of Winterton, union of Glanford Brigg, Barton-on-Humber county court district, rural deanery of Manlake, archdeaconry of Stow and diocese of Lincoln. Under the provisions of the "Local Government Act, 1894" (56 and 57 Vict. c. 73) the parish is governed by an Urban District Council having from 1863 been under the control of a Local Board. The church of St. Mary, thoroughly restored in 1875 at a cost of about £1,700, under the direction of Mr. James Fowler, architect, of Louth, is a building of stone in the Decorated style of the 14th century, and consists of chancel, nave, aisles, north transept, south porch and an embattled western tower containing a clock and 3 bells: in the chancel is a piscina and two canopied sedilia, and here are also memorial windows to William Chatterton, d. 1882 and Ann Chatterton d. 1869, erected by permission of V.D.H Cary-Elwes esq. who is lay rector: the south aisle also contains a piscina, and has a window in memory of the Taylor family, 1875, and a recessed arch enclosing the tomb of an ecclesiastic, above which is a handsomely carved canopied niche: the transept is now used as a vestry: there are 200 sittings. The register, including Risby, dates from the year 1603. The living is a vicarage, with that of Risby annexed, joint net yearly value £500, including 120 acres of glebe and residence in the gift of V.D.H. Cary-Elwes esq. and held since 1879, by the Reverend Walter Arthur Taylor, of Caius College, Cambridge, who is non-resident. The Rev. Richard Northon Matthew M.A. of Keble College, Oxford, has been curate in charge since 1891. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel built in 1897. In 1709 a Roman tessellated pavement was found in a field south-west of the church; subsequently it was more extensively uncovered, and was copied and engraved in 1799, but incorrectly, by Mr William Fowler, of Winterton, and in 1873 it was again uncovered, and an exact coloured drawing made to scale by V.D.H. Cary-Elwes esq. A reading-room founded by Miss Chatterton, of High Risby, in memory of her father, William Chatterton, in 1883, is supported by voluntary contributions, and managed by a committee, of which the curate in charge is chairman: Mrs Sarah Markham, widow of William Markham, formerly gamekeeper here, died 28th June, 1892 at the age of 107, having been born at Park Street, near St. Albans, 29th May, 1785. Valentine Dudley Henry Cary-Elwes esq. of the Manor House, Brigg, is lord of the manor, and owns all the parish, with the exception of the glebe. The soil is various; subsoil, ironstone, limestone and sandstone. The chief crops are turnips, barley, wheat and pasture for sheep. The area of the parish is 4,900 acres of land and 8 of water; rateable value, £4,787; the population in 1891 was 392.
RISBY is a hamlet, 2 miles south; the ruins of its ancient church, dedicated to St. Bartholomew, are still traceable.
SAWCLIFFE is a hamlet 2 miles south-west.
Parish Clerk, Brumby Crowston.
Post Office, - Brumby Crowston, sub-postmaster. Letters from Doncaster arrive at Appleby station, thence by mail cart at 8.40 a.m.; dispatched at 5.35 p.m. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid. The nearest money order and telegraph office is at Winterton, 2 miles distant.
 
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