Description
Whaplode, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire. The village has a station on the Spalding and Lynn railway, 98 miles from London, and 2 1/2 W by S of Holbeach, and a post office under Spalding; money order and telegraph office, Moulton. The parish includes Whaplode Drove chapelry, and comprises 10,688 acres; population of the civil parish, 2216; of the ecclesiastical, 1451. Irby Hall was anciently a seat of the Irbys, and is now a farmhouse. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £360 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is a large and handsome building of stone in the Norman style. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels, almshouses, and three charities.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
