Skellingthorpe, Lincolnshire

Description
Skellingthorpe, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire. The village stands 1 mile from Saxilby station on the Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint railway, 4 1/2 miles W of Lincoln, and has a post office under Lincoln; money order and telegraph office, Lincoln. The parish contains also the hamlet of Swallowbeck, and comprises 5946 acres; population, 650. The manor was bequeathed in 1693 by H. Stone, Esq., to Christ's Hospital, London. Skellingthorpe Hall is a modern mansion standing about a mile S from the church. Hartsholm Hall is a fine modern mansion of red brick standing amidst extensive pleasure grounds, in which there is a lake 25 acres in extent. Much of the land was reclaimed from a marshy state subsequent to 1835. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; gross value, £174 with residence. The church, which was rebuilt in 1835, is a small building of stone in the Early English style, and there are Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels.