Lusby, Lincolnshire

Description
Lusby, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, 4 miles WNW of Spilsby terminal station on the G.N.R., and 6 E from Horncastle. Post town and telegraph office, Spilsby; money order office, Hagworthingham. Acreage, 900; population of the civil parish, 83 ; of the ecclesiastical, with As-garby, 166. The manor and most of the land belong to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. The living is a rectory, with the vicarage of Asgarby annexed, in the diocese of Lincoln; gross value, £158. Patron, the Bishop of Lincoln. The church is a small building of stone in the Norman style, which was restored in 1892. It contains a brass of 1600, with a curious rhyming dialogue between a deceased wife and her surviving husband. There is also a small Wesleyan chapel.