The history and antiquities of Boston, and the villages of Skirbeck, Fishtoft, Freiston, Butterwick, Benington, Leverton, Leake, and Wrangle; comprising the hundred of Skirbeck, in the county of Lincoln. Including also a history of the East, West, and Wildmore fens, and copious notices of the Holland or Haut-Huntre fen ... sketches of the geology, natural history, botany, and agriculture of the district; a very extensive collection of archaisms and provincial words, local dialect, phrases, proverbs, omens, superstitions, etc. By Pishey Thompson. Illustrated with one hundred engravings.

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houses, with a population of nearly 650. It contains 200 acres of freehold and
copyhold land, and fifty acres of leasehold. The church of St. Peter was consecrated by the bishop of the diocese in June 1854. It consists of a chancel,
nave, south-west porch, and an open octangular wooden belfry-turret, surmounted by a shingled spirelet at the north-east of the nave. The architecture is of the well-developed "middle-pointed" style, with traceried windows
and pedimented buttresses. The interior is fitted up in good keeping with the
exterior. The font and pulpit are of Caen stone, chaste in design, and well
executed. The open benches are all free, and afford sittings for about 400
people. The Rev. Justice Chapman, M.A., was inducted to the living at the
time of the consecration of the church.
The parsonage adjacent to the church is of brick, with stone dressings, and
relieved by black bricks arranged in various patterns. The Wesleyan and
Primitive Methodists have each a chapel in this village.
New Bolingbroke is in the soke of Bolingbroke, and about seven miles distant
from the old town of that name.
CARRINGTON is situated about seven miles north of Boston; it was made
parochial in 1812. The chapel was opened September 14, 1817, and consecrated in July 1818. The Fen allotment of Boston East forms part of the
chapelry of Carrington. The Rev. Thomas Mitchinson has been pastor of this
chapel from its erection; it cost 10001., and will seat 200 persons.
EASTrILLE is situated in what was the East Fen; it was made parochial in
1812. The soil is a black peat, with a clay or silt sub-stratum, varying in its
depth from the surface from 6 inches to 3 feet; this land has been reclaimed
from the state of a morass by the process of claying, and now produces wheat of
fine quality, yielding four to six quarters per acre. The church at Eastville
was built in 1840, by the trustees appointed to manage the funds arising from
the land appropriated at the inclosure for building churches in the Fens. The