Description
Brothertoft, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Kirton civil parish, Lincolnshire, 1 mile SSW of Langrick station on the G.N.R., and 4 1/2 miles WNW of Boston. There is a post office at Brothertoft; money order office, Boston; telegraph office, Langrick Ferry. Acreage of the township, 1835; population, 235; of the ecclesiastical parish, 125. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net yearly value, £172. The church is a small building of stone in the Early English style, rebuilt about the middle of the 19th century, formerly belonged to Sempringham Abbey. Brothertoft Hall is a chief residence. There is a charity worth about £40 a year.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
