Description
Burwell, a parish in Lincolnshire, 2 1/2 miles W by S of Authorpe station on the G.N.R., and 5 1/2 SSE of Louth. It has a post office under Louth; money order and telegraph office, Tetford. Acreage, 2044; population, 164. Burwell Park, a fine mansion standing in a well-wooded park of 200 acres, was the birthplace of Sarah Jennings, the famous Duchess of Marlborough. A Benedictine priory was founded in the parish by John de Hay, ancestor of the Umfravilles, made a cell to St Mary's Abbey, Bordeaux, and passed eventually to the Duke of Suffolk. The living is a vicarage with Walms-gate and Muckton annexed; joint net yearly value, £159 with residence. The church is an ancient structure of stone in the Norman style.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
