Humberstone, Lincolnshire

Description
Humberstone, a parish, with a village, in Lincolnshire, 2 miles from the Humber, 1 1/2 mile E from Waltham station on the G.N.E., and 5 miles SE by S from Great Grims-by. Post town, Grimsby; money order and telegraph office, Cleethorpe. Acreage, 2994; population, 254. A small Benedictine abbey was founded here in the time of Henry II., and was given at the dissolution to John Cheke, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net yearly value, £280 with residence. Patron, Lord Carrington. The church was rebuilt in 1710, is a brick structure, with a tower, and contains several monuments, one of which is to Mathew Humberstone, Esq., who was a foundling, took the name of the parish, acquired great riches, died in 1709, and left £300 to erect his monument, £1000 to rebuild the church, £1100 to erect a grammar school and almshouses, and an annuity of £40 toward the vicar's income. The fund is now administered under a scheme issued by the Charity Commissioners in 1878, and it provides for an elementary school in this parish, and a higher grade school in the parish of Clee. There is a Wesleyan chape