Scopwick, Lincolnshire

Description
Scopwick, a parish, with a village, in Lincolnshire, near the Great Eastern and Great Northern Joint line from Spalding to Doncaster, 1 1/2 mile W from Scopwick and Timberland station, and 8 1/2 miles N of Sleaford. It has a post office under Lincoln; money order and telegraph office, Metheringham. Acreage, 3537; population of the civil parish, 349; of the ecclesiastical, with Kirkby Green, 452. The manor belongs to the Chaplin family. Several ancient earthworks are on Scopwick Heath. The living is a vicarage, united in 1868 with Kirkby Green, in the diocese of Lincoln; joint net value, £235 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church was partly rebuilt in 1882, and is a building of stone in the Early English style. There is a Wesleyan chapel.