Description
Maltby-le-Marsh, a parish, with a village, in Lincolnshire, 3 miles SW from Mablethorpe station on the G.N.R., and 4 NNE of Alford. Post town, Alford; money order and telegraph office, Mablethorpe. Acreage, 1409; population, 251. The living is a rectory in the diocease of Lincoln ; gross value, £273 with residence. The church is an ancient building of stone, consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with a tower, and contains an effigies supposed to be of one of the Earls killed in a duel at Earl's Bridge, which connects this parish with Mablethorpe. It has also a very ancient and interesting carved stone font. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels, and an endowed school.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
