Description

Blyton, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire. The village stands near the M.S. & L.E., 4 1/2 miles NE of Gainsborough, and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Gainsborough, which is the telegraph office; money order office, Morton. The parish includes also the hamlet of Wharton. Acreage, 4705 ; population, 747. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £312 with residence. The church, an ancient building of stone in the Early English style, was restored in 1880. There are Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels.