Description

Bonby or Bondeby, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, on the river Ancholme, 3 miles NW of Elsham station on the M.S. & L.R., and 6 N of Brigg, with a post office under Hull; money order office, Worlaby; telegraph office, Elsham (R.S.) Acreage of parish, 2467; population, 341. An alien priory was founded here in the time of King John, and given to the Chartreux House at Beanval in Notts in the time of Henry IV. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £186 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Yarborough. The church is an ancient building of brick in the Early English style. There are Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels.