This sequestered place is approached by a road, worn, probably by usage through long ages, to a depth of several feet below the ordinary level of the ground, the high banks on each side of it being covered with neatly-trimmed shrubbery, and the whole has the appearance of a well-cared-for estate, all the buildings being substantial and in excellent order. Some of the fields still retain names which tell of by-gone ages. To the north are fields named “Scotland Deepdales,” and “Scotland Walk,” which may possibly refer to the old parochial taxation, “Scot and Lot” (Saxon, sceat and lot), which was levied upon all subjects according to their ability, for the poor, church expenses, village watchman, &c., the right of voting for members of parliament and other officials, being vested in those who paid “scot and lot.” One field is named “Mill Walk,” indicating where the manorial lord once had that valuable source of revenue, the mill, at which all the bordars and villeins were bound to have their corn ground. One part of the ground is named “Groves’ Walk,” a plantation so-called from a poacher, Groves, who was shot in a night skirmish many years ago. In a wood in the Farford direction, adders are said to have been numerous. There is an extensive pasture named the “Intake,” probably recording its first inclosure from the common land. Two arable fields are called the “Near” and “Far” “Gaire”; gaire, garing, or geira, being a very ancient term for a section of land ploughed in a different direction from the rest, as these are still at the present time. While ploughing a part of this manor in the year 1818, a labourer found a small silver casket, containing 46_s._ of the early part of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, which were scarcely injured by the lapse of time. (“Hist. Linc.,” by J. Saunders, vol. ii., p. 177.) Altogether, this parish of some 5 houses, and less than 40 inhabitants, forms a very interesting little estate. RAITHBY.