Carrington, Lincolnshire

Description
Carrington, a small parish in Lincolnshire, in the fens, 5 1/2 miles NW from Sibsey station on the G.N.R., and 7 1/2 N of Boston, which is the post town ; money order and telegraph office, Mareham-le-Fen and Stickney. Acreage, 3587; population of the civil parish, 605; of the ecclesiastical, 1491. It was formerly a township of Helpringham, but was made parochial on the draining of Wildmore Fen in 1812, and named after Lord Carrington, the principal proprietor. By an order of the Local Government Board issued in 1880, Miningsby Fen Allotment, Asgarby Fen Allotment, and detached parts of Revesby, Boston Fen, Freiston Fen, Severton Fen, Hundleby Fen, Tumby, Westville, Thornton-Ie-Fen, Fishtoft, Frith Bank, Skirbeck, West Keal, Sutby, and Bolingbroke were transferred to Carrington. The living is a vicarage with Frithville annexed in the diocese of Lincoln; value, £270, in the gift of the Bishop of Lincoln. The church, erected in 1816 and enlarged in 1872, is a plain building of brick in the Late Perpendicular style.