Description
Miningsby, a parish, with a village, in Lincolnshire, 7 miles W by S from Spilsby station on the G.N.R., and 7 SE from Horncastle. Post town, Revesby, under Boston; money order and telegraph office, East Kirkby. Acreage, 1109 ; population, 101. The manor belongs to the Stanhope family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; gross value, £200 with residence. Patron, the Duchy of Lancaster. The church is an ancient building of green sandstone in the Early English style, and consists of nave and chancel, with bell-turret ; it was restored and almost rebuilt in 1878. There is a Wesleyan chapel, and the parish shares in the free school of East Kirkby.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
