South Kelsey, Lincolnshire

Description
Kelsey, South, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire. The village stands near the head of the Anchoime navigation, 2 1/2 miles W by S from Moortown station on the M.S. & L.R., and 6 WSW from Caistor, and has a post and money order office under Caistor; telegraph office, Caistor. The parish contains also the hamlet of Moortown, and comprises 4198 acres; population, 583. The property is nearly all in one estate. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; gross value, £420 with residence. Patrons, alternately the Crown and Equitable Life Insurance Company. There were formerly two churches and two parishes, St Mary and St Nicholas, but St Nicholas' was pulled down about 1795. Its churchyard is still used as a burial ground. St Mary's Church is a neat modern edifice, with an ancient tower, and has been extensively repaired. There are Free Methodist, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan chapels. Bishop Ays-cough, the confessor of Henry VI., and Anne Askew, the martyr, were natives.