Description
Ewerby, a village, formerly a market-town, and a parish in Lincolnshire, near the Sleaford Canal, 3 1/4 miles E by N from Sleaford, and 3^ from Heckington station on the G.N.R. The parish contains the hamlet of Ewerhy Thorpe, and has a post office under Sleaford; money older and telegraph office, Heckington. Acreage, 2923 ; population of the civil parish, 384; of the ecclesiastical, 408. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £170 with residence. Patron, the Countess of Winchilsea. The church is a building the architectural features of which belong to the Geometrical Decorated Period, with a western tower and lofty spire. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
