Description
Halton, East, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire. The village stands about a mile from the Humber, 2 miles E from Thornton Abbey station on the M.S. & L.R., and 7 ESE from Barton-on-Humber; is a long, irregularly-built place, and has a post office under Ulceby; money order office, Goxhill; telegraph office, Ulceby. The parish extends to Halton Skitter Creek, and comprises 3325 acres; population, 505. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £150. Patron, the Earl of Yarborough. The church is ancient but good, and has a tower. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
