Entry from Kelly's Trade Directory for 1900
Worlaby
near Brigg, is a large parish and pleasant village, 2 ½
miles north from Elsham station on the main line of the Great
Central (M.S. and L ) railway, 5 north-east from Brigg and 6 south-west
from Barton and 4 from Barnetby, in the North Lindsey division
of the county, parts of Lindsey, northern division of the wapentake
of Yarborough, petty sessional division of Brigg, union and county
court district of Brigg, rural deanery of Yarborough No 1, archdeaconry
of Stow and the diocese of Lincoln. The church of St Clement,
rebuilt in 1873-7, on the ancient site, at a cost of £2,674,
defrayed by the trustees of the late T G Corbett esq. is an edifice
of stone, in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave,
aisles, south porch and a western tower with a small spire, containing
a clock and three bells: the piers, north aisle window and tower
arch are all either Saxon or Norman and were carefully preserved
and reset: in the porch there is an ancient tombstone, inscribed
to a lady of the time of James I. : the south-east window of the
chancel is a memorial to William and Thomas Hesseltine, and was
placed by William Hesseltine, of Beaumont Cote, eldest son of
the former, and by the daughter of the latter: there is an inscribed
stone to John, 1st Baron Bellasyse, of Worlaby, ob. 1689: the
church plate includes an ancient cup and cover of hand-beaten
silver, dated 1569. The register dates from the year 1559. The
living is a vicarage, net yearly value £220, including 11
acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Sir Francis e.
G. Astley - Corbett, and held since 1895 by the Rev. Arthur Hutchinson
Lamb M.A. of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. There are Wesleyan
and primitive Methodist chapels here. Here is a well built hospital,
founded by John Bellasyse, Baron of Worlaby, in the year 1663,
for four poor women; it is a structure of brick, in good preservation,
and under the control and direction of the vicar and two trustees;
each inmate receives 2s. per week. The property now belongs to
the Duke of Newcastle, who has lately (1900) put it in thorough
repair. In the centre of the village is a drinking fountain, erected
in 1873 by the late Sir John Dugdale Astley bart. at a cost of
£100. In 1897 an oak tree was planted on the village green
in commemoration of the Queen's Jubilee. Sir Francis E G Astley-Corbett
bart. of Elsham Hall, is lord of the manor and chief landowner.
The soil of about one-half the parish is of fine chalk subsoil
and highly fertile; the other part of the parish, viz. the Carrs,
consists of a clay subsoil of rather black nature. The chief crops
are wheat, barley, oats and good pastureland. The area is 3,341
acres of land and 8 of water; rateable value, £4,751; the
population in 1891 was 540.
Post and M.O.O.& S. B. & Annuity &
Insurance Office. (Railway Sub-Office. Letters should have R.S.O.
Lincs. added). - George Rowson, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive
from Lincoln at 8 am and 3pm; dispatched at 9.10am and 5.15pm.
The nearest telegraph office is at Elsham railway station, 3
miles distant.
National School (mixed), erected in 1872, at the sole cost of
the trustees of the late T. G. Corbett esq. for 100 children;
average attendance, 96; the school was enlarged in1884 to receive
45 additional children; it is supported by the trustees and
managed by a committee, consisting of the vicar, churchwardens,
overseers and ten parishioners; George Chandler, master.
Carriers to
Barton - George Girdham, Mon.; George Green, Mon. Wed. Fri.
and Sat.
Brigg - Geo. Girdham, Thurs.; Thos. Hoodlass Thurs. and Sat.
Hull - Thomas Hoodlass, Tues. and Fri.; Geo Girdham, Tues. and
Fri.
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