Description
Glentworth, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, on the Wolds, 7 miles E of Lea station on the G.E.R. & G.N.R., and 8 ESE of Gainsborough, with a post and money order office under Lincoln; telegraph office, Ingham. Acreage, 3128; population, 316. The property belongs to the Eail of Scarborough. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net yearly value, £265 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Scarborough. The church is good, and contains a monument of Lord Chief Justice Wray, of the time of Elizabeth. There is a Free Methodist chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
