Hogsthorpe, Lincolnshire

Description
Hogsthorpe, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire. The-village stands 2 miles from the coast, 3 SE from Mumby Road station on the G.N.E., and 7 SE from Alford, is large-and pleasant, and has a post and money order office under Alford; telegraph office, Alford. The parish contains also-the hamlets of Slackhoime, Authorpe Eow, and part of Helsey. Acreage, 3300; population of the civil parish, 684; of the ecclesiastical, 651. The manor belongs to the Eycroft family, but the soil belongs chiefly to the Earl of Ancaster,. the governors of Bethlehem Hospital, and the corporation of the Scottish Provident Institution. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £280. Patron, the-Bishop of Lincoln. The church is mainly Early English, with a tower and a peal of six bells, but has Transition Norman massive pillars; it was restored in 1854, and the chancel was rebuilt in 1870. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Metliodist chapels, and charities worth £120.