Orby, Lincolnshire

Description
Orby, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire. The village stands 1 1/2 mile NE of Burgh station on the East Lincolnshire section of the G.N.R., and 6 miles E by N of Spilsby. It has a post office under Burgh (R.S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Burgh. Acreage of parish, 2051; population of the civil parish, 304; of the ecclesiastical, 311. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The manor and part of the land belong to the Ogilvie and Walls families, the remainder to a number of small freeholders. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; gross value, £200 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Lincoln, The church, a building of freestone in the Perpendicular style, was built about the end of the 13th century by a prior of Thomholm; had its chancel rebuilt by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in 1888; consists of nave, S aisle, and chancel, with an embattled western tower; and contains an ancient octagonal font There is a Wesleyan chapel.