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Falkingham in Lincoln County England History and GeographyFALKINGHAM, or FOLKINGHAM, a market town and parish in the wapentake of AVELAND, parts of KESTEVEN, county of LINCOLN, 26½ miles (S.S.E.) from Lincoln, and 102½ (N. by W.) from London, containing 759 inhabitants. This town is supposed to have originated from a baronial castle in the vicinity, said to have been built by Henry de Beaumont, lord of the manor in the reign of Edward I., which having been garrisoned by the royalists in the time of Charles I., was subsequently demolished by order of Cromwell: it occupies an elevation which commands an extensive view over the fens. The streets are clean and well paved, and the inhabitants well supplied with water from springs. There is a small market on Thursday; fairs are held on Ash-Wednesday, Palm-Monday, and May 19th, for horses and sheep; June 15th and 16th, for horses and cattle; July 3d, for hemp and hardware; and on the Thursday after Old Michaelmas-day, and November 22d, for horses, cattle, &c. A court leet is held annually for the manor, on the 1st or 2d of November: the petty sessions for the parts of Kesteven, formerly held here, have been removed to Bourn. In the year 1808, a new prison, or house of correction, was erected on the site of the ancient castle, at an expense of £6600, which was defrayed by a rate on the county; in 1825, a further sum of £8000 was expended in making considerable additions: it is now capable of containing from sixty to seventy prisoners, and is intended for a district which comprises five market towns and two hundred and eleven villages: the jurisdiction and superintendence are vested in the magistrates for the parts of Kesteven, who appoint six officers belonging to the prison, viz., a chaplain, surgeon, surveyor, keeper, matron, and turnkey. There are ten day-rooms and airing-yards, used by the five classes of male and female prisoners, as directed by act of parliament in the 4th of George IV., and within the walls are a chapel and a tread-mill. The male prisoners sentenced to hard labour are employed at the tread-wheel, and the females in knitting and spinning, and they are severally allowed one-fourth of their earnings; prisoners not committed for hard labour, who work voluntarily, receive one-half, and those committed for trial three-fourths. The living is a rectory, with the vicarage of Laughton united, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £21. 12. 3½.,and in the patronage of Sir Gilbert Heathcote, Bart. The church, which is dedicated to St. Andrew, is a spacious and handsome structure, principally in the later style of English architecture; the chancel is of earlier date, and exhibits some fine decorated windows; and the tower, which is the most remarkable part of the edifice, has a rich battlement and eight pinnacles. The free grammar school is open to all the children of the parish: the master has a salary of £30 per annum, in addition to £40 per annum which is chargeable on land near the town, and was bequeathed by J. R. Brokesby, Esq.; other benefactions have been made to provide clothing for a certain number of the scholars. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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