Brocklesby, Lincolnshire

Description
Brocklesby, a parish in Lincolnshire, 8 miles WNW of Great Grimsby. It has a station on the M.S. & L.R., and includes the hamlet of Little Limber, and it has a post office (S.O.) under Ulceby; money order and telegraph office, Ulceby. Acreage, 3939; population of the civil parish, 282 ; of the ecclesiastical with Kirmington, 713. Brocklesby Park is the seat of the Earl of Yarborough. The hall has a fine picture gallery, and the grounds have a mausoleum by Wyatt in the form of a Greek temple, with catacombs below. The living is a rectory united with the vicarage of Kirmington in the diocese of Lincoln; joint gross yearly value, £450 with residence. Patron, Lord Yarborough. The church is a beautiful building of stone in the Decorated style.