Description
Bracebridge, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, on the river Witham, 2 miles S of Lincoln railway station. There is a post, money order, and telegraph office under Lincoln. Acreage of the civil parish, 1527 ; population, 2494; of the ecclesiastical, with Boultham, 3021. The living is a vicarage, annexed to Boultham, in the diocese of Lincoln; joint gross yearly value, £370 with residence. The church is an ancient Norman building of stone in mixed styles. It was restored and enlarged in 1874-75. There are also Wesleyan and Methodist Free Church chapels. The county lunatic asylum is in the neighbourhood. Brick and tile making are carried on.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
