ON RIGHT FROM LOND. From From London. ON LEFT FROM LOND. 1334 135 138 Gedling, and Gedling House, Rev. P. Williams. It 1 mile beyond Fiskerton Station is a branch to Southwell, pleasantly situated in a well wooded 1411 country, on the banks of the little river Greet. Southwell is a place of 1441 great antiquity, and was formerly more extensive than at present. possesses a collegiate church, supposed to be the oldest ecclesiastical structure in England, except St Augustine's Monastery at Canterbury. The Archbishops of York formerly had a palace here, now in ruins. Pop. 1851, 3516. Kelham Hall, J. H. Manners Sutton, Esq. On opposite side of Trent, Muskham Grange and Muskham House, J. Handley, Esq. South Scarle. 1472 153 Cross boundary, and en ter Lincolnshire. Walesby. T. D'Eyncourt. MARKET RASEN, a smal market-town, 13 Faldingworth. Kirkby cum Osgodby. * It is 264 feet long, and has three towers. The stone carving of the chapter house is most elaborate. Nearly along line of Delapré Abbey, Major- 42 NORTHAMPTON, (p. 226.) 67 General E. Bouverie. The line hence follows throughout the course of the Nen, which it crosses in several places. Leave main line of N. Western Railway. Abington Abbey (a lunatic asylum), 1 m. Weston Favell. Overstone House (Lord Overstone.) 448 CLXI. LONDON TO HULL THROUGH PETERBOROUGH, BOSTON, From London by North Western Railway, as on preceding page, to PETERBOROUGH. (See p. 420.) Thence by Great Nor thern line, to From London. 110 Crowland, 2 miles 891 Peakirk, Crowland, &c. 1193 (see p. 430.) St. and St. Paul in Algarkirk is an ancient structure, Fen St. Proceed through the district of the Fens, an immense level tract which occupies parts of the counties of Lincoln, Cambridge, Norfolk, Suffolk, Huntingdon, and Northampton, extending about 50 miles from north to south, and 30 from east to west, and comprehending nearly 400,000 acres. This district is intersected by numerous artificial channels, by means of which it has been effectually drained, and converted, from a vast swamp, into a highly fertile and productive region. SPALDING St. (see p. 430.) 131 Surfleet St. cr. river Glen. 1342 ON LEFT FROM LOND. 5 miles beyond, Peterborough, leave line of railway to Stamford and Melton Mowbray. Glinton. distant, a small town of Market Deeping, 2 m. great antiquity. The land to the eastward of it is said to be the lowest in the county, whence its appellation is derived. Pop. 1219. Pinchbeck. Surfleet.. Gosberton; near it, Cressy Hall. Swineshead, 5 miles with a tower and five 703 Sutterton and Algarkirk 138 (see p. 430.) bells. St. Kirton. W. Skirbeck House. Railway to Lincoln, 25 m., by Tattershall. To New Bolingbroke, 7 miles. Spilsby, 4 m. distant, a small market-town, 26 miles east of Lincoln, is the chief place in the southern part of Lindsey division. Pop. 1457. Gunby Hall, A. Massingberd, Esq. Candlesby House; beyond,Gillingham House. Welton. Claxby. Well Hall, Rt. Hon IR. A. C. N. Hamilton. |