Description

Billinghay, a village, a township, and a parish in Lincoln. The parish lies on Billinghay Skirth, 3 1/2 miles WSW of Tattershall station on the G.N.R., and 9 1/2 NE of Sleaford. It includes part of the township of Dogdyke, and the hamlet of Walcot, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Lincoln, Acreage, 3671; population of the civil parish, 1315; of the ecclesiastical, including Dogdyke and Walcot, 2027. Billinghay Skirth is a cut, 5 miles long, from the Sleaford Canal to the river Witham. The living is a vicarage, united with the perpetual curacy of Walcot and Dogdyke, in the diocese of Lincoln ; net yearly value, £330 with residence. Patron, Earl Fitzwilliam. The church, dedicated to St Michael, is of oolite stone in the Early English and Perpendicular style. It consists of chancel, nave, and side aisles, south porch, and tower surmounted by a spire. There are Baptist, Wesleyan, and Primitive Methodist chapels. Walcot is a township and parochial chapelry, 2 miles to the NW. It has a church, erected in 1852, and a small Wesleyan chapel. Dogdyke will be found under a separate head.