Gunby St Peter, Lincolnshire

Description
Gunby St Peter, a parish in Lincolnshire, adjacent to the Burgh station of the East Lincolnshire branch of the G.N.E., 5 miles E by N from Spilsby. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Burgh. Acreage, 675; population of the civil parish, 85; of the ecclesiastical, with Wel-ton-in-the-Marsh, 407. The manor belongs to the Massing-berds, who reside at Gnnby Hall, a fine mansion of red brick, very pleasantly situated in a well wooded park. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln, consolidated with the vicarage of Welton-in-the-Marsh; joint gross yearly value, £300 with residence. The church was rebuilt in the beginning of last century, and again rebuilt in 1870. It is in the Early English style, and contains some ancient and interesting memorials of the Massingberd family.