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The Church (St. John the Baptist,) is an ancient structure, which has suffered greatly as a result of injudicious alterations. one of its bells is curiously cast and bears a long inscription. the vicarage, valued in K.B. at 310, was augmented with £400 of Q.A.B., in 1817. It is now, with that of Whitton annexed to it, valued at £209, in the alternate patronage of the Bishop of Lincoln and M. Constable Esq. The Rev. John Wilson is the incumbent and m. Constable Esq., is the impropriator, but the tithes were commuted for allotments, at the enclosure, except for a small modus paid to the vicar, who has 51 acres of glebe. The Wesleyan and Primitive Methodists have each a chapel here; the former rebuilt in 1840. An old Almshouse, divided into 10 tenements, with a rood of garden ground, has been occupied by parish paupers from time immemorial. At the enclosure, in 1765, a yearly rent charge of £1. 12s., was awarded to the poor in lieu of common rights; and it is paid by the lord of the manor, who also pays 10s. a year to the parish clerk, pursuant to the same enclosure award.
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