Description
Coningsby, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, on the rivers Bain (Horncastle Canal) and Witham, adjacent to the Boston and Lincoln branch of the G.N.R., 1 1/2 mile NE from Tattershall station, and 8 miles SSW from Horncastle, with a post, money order, and telegraph office under Lincoln. Acreage, 3727; population, 1186. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln ; net yearly value, £360 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Ancaster. The church is an ancient building of sandstone and Lincoln stone in the Early English and Later styles, and there are Baptist, Wesleyan Methodist, and Primitive Methodist chapels. Eusden the poet-laureate, and Dyer, the author of the " Fleece," were rectors.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
