Description
Mareham-on-the-Hill, a parish in Lincolnshire, 2 miles SE of Horncastle station on the G.N.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Horncastle. Acreage, 1298; population of the civil parish, 126; of the ecclesiastical, with High Toynton, 250. The manor belonged to the Tumor family. The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of High Toynton, in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £307 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Manchester. The-church, which is a plain building of local green sandstone, consists of nave and chancel, with bell-turret; was repaired in 1804, when coins of Edward IV. and Henry VII. were found in its walls. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
