Metheringham, Lincolnshire

Description
Metheringham, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire. The village stands 6 miles WSW of Stixwould, and 9 SE of Lincoln, and has a station, called Blankney and Metheringham, on the Great Eastern and Great Northern Joint line from Spalding to Doncaster. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Lincoln. The parish contains also the hamlet of Tanvats. Acreage, 5899; population, 1614. The parish council, under the Local Government Act, 1894, consists of eleven members. The manor belongs to the Chaplin family. Metheringham drain goes hence to the river Witham. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; gross value, £391 with residence. Patron, the Marquis of Bristol. The church is a large and ancient building of stone in the Norman and Gothic styles of the 13th and 16th centuries; consists of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch, and an embattled western tower of the 12th century, and contains some ancient mural tablets and a vault of the Skipwith family. There is a mission room on the Heath and another at Tanvats. There are Primitive Methodist, Reformed Methodist, and Wesleyan chapels, and there is also a Wesleyan chapel at Tanvats.