Description
Firsby, a village, and a parish in Lincolnshire, on the G.N.R.,4 miles SSW of Burgh, and 5 SE of Spilsby, with a station on the railway at the junction of the Spilsby and Skegness branches. Post town and money order office, Spilsby; telegraph office, Firsby railway station. Acreage, 1107 ; population of the civil parish, 228; of the ecclesiastical, with Great Steeping, 453. The living is a rectory, united with the vicarage of Great Steeping, in the diocese of Lincoln; joint gross value, £264 with residence. The church, a small building of stone in the Early English style, was rebuilt in 1856. There is a Wesleyan chapel. Bishop War-burton was rector from 1730 to 1756.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
