Description
Digby, a parish in Lincolnshire, on a rivulet called Digby Beck, 6 miles N by W from Sleaford. It has a station on the Spalding and Doncaster extension of the G.N.R. and G.E.R., and a post office under Lincoln; money order and telegraph office, Ruskington. Acreage, 2494; population, 344. The living is a vicarage, united with the rectory of Bloxhoime, in the diocese of Lincoln; joint gross yearly value, £342 with residence. The church is Early English,. with pinnacled tower and crocketed spire, and has a fine Norman entrance and embattled walls. A fine cross is near the church. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
