Fishtoft, Lincolnshire

Description
Fishtoft, a parish in Lincolnshire, between the river Witham and Boston Deeps, and near the East Lincoln branch of the G.N.R., 2 miles SE of Boston. It has a post office under Boston; money order and telegraph office, Boston. Acreage, 3954; population of the civil parish, 725; of the ecclesiastical, 484. An ancient manor-house of Lord Monte-ville, described by Leiand as " goodly and great," stood here, but was all in ruin when Leiand wrote. A considerable creek "once ran up near the outfall of the present Hob-hole sinice towards the church, and is supposed to have afforded great facilities for fishing and to have given rise to the name Fishtoft. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; gross value, £369 with residence. The church has traces of Early English, but is mainly Later English, was restored in 1853, has an interesting Norman chancel, and 'contains a chancel-screen of open work and an octagonal font. There is a Wesleyan chapel, and a coastguard station at Sob-hole sluice.