Description
Moorby, a parish, with a small village, in Lincolnshire, 4 miles SE by S of Homcastle station on the G.N.R. Post town, Boston; money order and telegraph office, Mareham-le-Fen. Acreage, 786; population of the civil parish, 75; of the ecclesiastical, with Wood Enderby, 222. The manor belongs to the Stanhope family. The living is a rectory, united with the perpetual curacy of Wood Enderby, in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £230 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Manchester. The church was rebuilt in 1866, is in the Early English style, and consists of nave and chancel, with vestry, porch, and NW spirelet There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
