Description
Westborough, a parish, with a village, in Lincolnshire, on the river Witham, 3 miles W of Hougham station on the G.N.R., and 7 NW by N of Grantham. Post town, Grantham; money order and telegraph office, Long Bennington. Acreage, 2070; population of the civil parish, 138; of the ecclesiastical, with Dry Doddington, 316. A Roman settlement was here. The living is twofold-a rectory united with Dry Doddington, and a rectory per se-in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £400 with residence. The church is an interesting building of stone in the Early English style. There is a Roman Catholic chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
