Description
Baumber or Bamburgh, a parish in Lincolnshire, on the Wolds, 4 miles NW by N of Horncastle station on the G.N.R. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Horncastle. Acreage, 3361; population of the civil parish, 366; of the ecclesiastical, 492. Stourton Hall, a mansion of Ancaster stone standing in a park of 300 acres, is the seat of the Liveseys. The living is a perpetual curacy, consolidated with the vicarage of Great Sturton. The church is good, and there is a Wesleyan chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
