Description
Heapham, a parish in Lincolnshire, on the rising-ground above the Trent, 3 miles E by N of Lea station on the G.N.R., and 4 1/4 ESE from Gainsborough. It has a post office under Gainsborough; money order office, Corringham; telegraph office, Gainsborough. Acreage, 1238; population of the civil parish, 132; of the ecclesiastical, 645. The living is a discharged rectory, consolidated in 1876 with the discharged vicarage of Upton, in the diocese of Lincoln; net yearly value, £260 with residence. The church, an ancient building of stone in the Norman, Transition, and. Early English styles, was restored in 1868.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
