Laceby, Lincolnshire

Description
Laceby, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire. The village stands 4 miles SW by W from Great Grimsby station on the M.S. & L. R. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Grimsby. Acreage, 2122; population, 986. An ancient earthwork is near the village, and a remarkable spring, called Wellbeck, dry in winter but copious in summer, is in the neighbourhood. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; net value,, £330. The church is a building of Ancaster stone in the Norman, Early English, and Perpendicular styles. There are also two Primitive Methodist chapels, a Wesleyan chapel, and a temperance liall. An endowed school for the parishes of Laceby, Brad-ley, and Barnoldby-le-Beck has an income of about £120 a year. Oaklands is a chief residence. John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury (1583-1604), was for some time rector of this parish.