Description
Eastville, a parochial township in Lincolnshire, on the East Lincoln branch of the G.N.R., near Bellwater Drain, 7 1/2 miles S from Spilsby. It has a railway station, and a post and money order office at New Leake, under Boston; telegraph office, the railway station. Acreage, 2749; population of the township, 342; of the ecclesiastical parish, 1197. The surface is fenny. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net yearly value, £287, in the gift of the Bishop of Lincoln. The cliurch is a modern building of brick. New Leake, a portion of the parish of Leake, is for ecclesiastical purposes included in Eastville. The parochial township of Midville is also for ecclesiastical purposes consolidated with Eastville.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
