Description
Bucknall, a parish in Lincolnshire, on an affluent of the river Witham, 2 1/2 miles NE from Stixwould station on the G.N.R., and 6 1/2 W of Horncastle. It has a post office under Lincoln; money order office, Bardney; telegraph office, Southrey (R.S.) Acreage, 2543; population, 331. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; net yearly value, £170 with residence. The church is a building of stone in the Early English style, and there are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels. The parish is under the jurisdiction of the Commissioners for Draining Fen Lands.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
