Belton by Grantham, Lincolnshire

Description
Belton, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, on the river Witham, adjacent to the G.N.R., 2 miles NNE of Grantham. There is a post office under Grantham, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 1745; population, 193. The property belongs all to Earl Brownlow, and gives him the title of Baron. Belton House, the Earl's seat, stands in a park of 5 miles in circuit, and is an edifice in the shape of the letter H, erected in 1689 after designs by Wren, and considerably modernized by Wyatt. It contains an Interesting and valuable collection of pictures. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £355 with residence. Patron, Earl Brownlow. The church is an ancient building of stone partly Norman and partly of the Perpendicular period, and contains monuments of the Ousts and the Brownlows, and a rich eight-sided font. An ornamental cross is in the village, and an ornamental tower on a height in the park. There is a bede-house for six poor women.