Ashby-de-la-Launde, a parish in Lincolnshire, 2 miles W of Digby station on the G.E. and G.N. Joint railway. Post town, Lincoln; money order office, Ruskington; telegraph office, Digby station. Acreage, 2689; population, 167. Ashby Hall is an old mansion with modern alterations and improvement. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net yearly value, £200. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Early English style, with spire like that of All Souls, Marylebone—sharp pointed without finial; dedicated to St Hybald, a Saxon hermit mentioned by Bede.