Description

Bottesford, a township and a parish in Lincolnshire. The township lies 4 miles E of the river Trent, 3 S of Frodingham station on the M.S. & L.R., and 7 W of Brigg. The parish contains also the townships of Ashby, Yaddle-thorpe, Hoime, and part of East Butterwick, and its post town is Ashby-under-Brigg; money order office, Ashby; telegraph office, Scunthorpe. Area, 5406 acres; population of the civil parish, 298; of the ecclesiastical, 2094. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; gross yearly value, £280 with residence, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln. The parish church is a building of stone, chiefly of the Early English period. Ashby, East Burringham, and East Butterwick are noticed under separate headings.