Tydd St Mary, Lincolnshire

Description
Tydd St Mary, a parish, with a village and with part of Tydd Gote hamlet, in Lincolnshire, with a station on the Midland and Great Northern Joint railway, 4 miles SW of Sutton Bridge. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Wisbech. Acreage, 4954; population, 837. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £630 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is very Late Norman, has a tower and spire, some painted glass windows, and an alabaster figure in armour. It was restored in 1879. There are two mission houses, Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels, a free school, and some large charities. Breakspear, who became Pope Adrian IV., is said to have been rector. The Roman bank for keeping out the sea runs through the village, and now the sea is six miles distant.