Description
Elsham or Aylesham, a parish, with a station on the M.S. & L.R., in Lincolnshire, on the Wolds, 4 1/4 miles NE of Glanford Brigg. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office (R.S.O., Lincolnshire). Area of the parish, 4154 acres; population, 457. Elsham Hall is a modern mansion of brick standing in a park of 150 acres. An Augus-tinian priory was founded at Elsham in the 12th century by Beatrice de Amundeville. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £95 with residence. The church is a building of stone in the Early English style, and there is a small Wesleyan chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
