Frampton, Lincolnshire

Description
Frampton, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire. The village stands between the Peterborough and Boston branch of the G.N.R. and the river Witham's estuary, 1 mile ENE of Kirton station, and 3 1/2 miles S of Boston, and has a post office under Boston; money order and telegraph office, Kirton. Acreage, 5387; population, 821. Frampton House and Frampton Hall are chief residences. Much of the land is fen, and 1000 acres have been reclaimed from the sea by means of a bank extending about 3 miles in length. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net yearly value, ££190. The church is cruciform, shows fine English Decorated character in the chancel and the transept, has a beautiful Early English tower with octagonal broach spire, and contains an octagonal font. It was thoroughly restored in 1891. There are a chapel of ease erected in 1863, an iron mission room, and Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels, Frampton or Frampton Mansell, a tithing in Sapperton parish, Gloucestershire, 6 miles NW of Cirencester. It has a chapel of ease to Sapperton parish church, built in 1843.