Listed in Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919

"Stothard Jeannie (Mrs.), Fox & Hounds P.H. & overseer"

Also in White's Directory 1856 

"Todd Geo. vict. Fox and Hounds"

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Former post office and smithy now a private house.

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 has a listing :-

"Post Office - John Ayre, sub-postmaster. Ropsley, 3 miles distant, is the nearest money order office & Boothby the nearest telegraph office"

Also

"Ayre John. blacksmith, Post office"

Post office and Smithy shown in this position on 25" Ordnance Survey Map published 1904. 

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In "Brief Details of Chapels in the Grantham Circuit" Revised August 1998 Colin Sheperdson and Allen Griffin state :-

"A chapel was rented from circa 1891 but the Society built their own chapel, in Grantham Road, in 1900. It is now a small rebuilt cottage "The Old Chapel"".

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"Former rectory now house; c.1700 with later C18, C19 and C20 alterations and additions"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1253283 

Viewed from the churchyard. 

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A depiction of Saint George and the Dragon over the front door.

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Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states "Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in, 1844, for 50 children; Miss Maud Josey, mistress"

White's Directory 1856 states "Somerby school was built by subscription in 1845"

School closed 1971 with the pupils transferred to Ropsley. 

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The church of St Mary Magdalen in Old Somerby has a Norman chancel arch, Early English tower and south arcade, whilst the clerestory and south aisle are from the Perpendicular period.

Inside can be found a fourteenth-century effigy of a knight and a marble monument of Dame Elizabeth Brownlow who died in 1684.

Mark Acton, 2014

View from the south-east showing the chancel with its Victorian windows.

The church was restored in 1876.

Peter Kirk Collection, 1997

White's Directory of Lincolnshire 1856 states :-

"The Church (St. Mary Magdalen) is an ancient structure, mostly in the early English style, but the chancel arch is Anglo-Norman.

On the floor is a recumbent effigy of a Knight Templar.

The rectory, valued in K.B. at £11.12s.2d., and now at £645, is in the gift of Lord Willoughby de Eresby, and incumbency of the Rev. W. E.Chapman, M.A., of Edenham, who has 74 acres of glebe, besides 84 acres allotted in lieu of tithes, in 1796, at the enclosure of Great Humby, where there is a small ancient chapel of ease, and where the Hotchkin family have an estate.

The tithes of the whole parish are commuted for a corn rent of £589. 19s. 3d. per annum"

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View along north side of the church.

Tower in the foreground was re-erected in C18 on earlier base.

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1261872 

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Detail of porch which has two scratch dials.

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"C13 opening, door has reset early ironwork hinges"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1261872 

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Well house located behind the building line on a footpath leading from Grantham Road to School Lane.

White's Directory of Lincolnshire 1856 states "The Village Well was sunk and enclosed in 1841, pursuant to the will of the Rev. J. Myers, a late rector"

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Inscription on the north side of the well house.

"IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE WILL OF THE LATE REV. JOHN MYERS THAT A BENEFACTION SHOULD BE GIVEN TO THE INHABITANTS OF THE PARISH OF SOMERBY. THIS WELL WAS SUNK FOR THEIR USE & THIS TABLET ERECTED TO HIS MEMORY.

A.D. 1841" 

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Inscription on the south side of the well house.

"THIS WELL WAS SUNK IN THIS SPOT BY PERMISSION OF THE REV. E.DOWDESWELL D.D."

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