transport iron ore for the Holwell Iron Company, later the Appleby-Frodingham Steel Company, and ran parallel to Sewstern Lane. Church The church is dedicated to St John the Baptist and included in the Withams Group of Churches of North Witham, Stainby and Gunby. In the 19th century the vicar was Ralph Tollemache, nephew of Lord Frederick Tollemache. He built the primary school in 1879. His eldest son, Sir Lyonel Tollemache, born in 1854, became Lord Tollemache in 1935. On 22 February 1869, Ralph Tollemache married Dora de Orellana (1847-1927), the daughter of Spanish Lt-Colonel Ignacio De Orellana (born 1793), being born in the Channel Islands. Ralph had already had five children, and with Dora he had another nine children; her brother Ignatius, a dentist, married in 1856, with one of her brother's sons being the British light music composer Ignatius de Orellana (1860-1931), who worked on the 1924 Pageant of Empire; her brother's shop is now the Millets store in St Helier. His sixth child acted as a vicar of the village, and fought as a captain, aged 34, with the First Battalion of the Lincolnshire Regiment; his body was never found after 1 November 1914, and his name is inscribed on the Menin Gate in Belgium. Another brother, Leone Sextus Tollemache, served with the Leicestershire Regiment, but had transferred as a Brigade major in the Third Australian Brigade, of the First Australian Division, being killed on 20 February 1917, and was buried at Dernancourt in France. Frances, the granddaughter of John Hay, 4th Marquess of Tweeddale, the Secretary of State for Scotland lived in village; she married Charles Manners-Tollemache, the nephew of the Earl of Dysart, in 1797. She died on 29 March 1801 in the village, aged 26. Charles Manners-Tollemache's father, John Manners, was an MP for Newark from 1754 to 1774, who had married Lady Louisa Tollemache, thus joining the Tollemache and Manners families, and taking the Tollemache name. His elder brother (William Tollemache, who took the family title) would have a granddaughter Caroline Tollemache (daughter of Felix Tollemache, 1796–1843), who married her cousin Ralph, the vicar of the village. Ralph was another grandson of Charles Manners' elder brother, John Manners. There were two chapels – a Methodist and Congregationalist (now known nationally as the United Reformed Church). One chapel on Thistleton Road became a vintage motorcycle museum. The owner later claimed to be Britain's safest driver,