Description
Muckton, a small village and a parish in Lincolnshire, adjacent to the East Lincolnshire section of the G.N.R., 1 3/4 mile NNW of Authorpe station, and 4 1/2 miles SSE of Louth. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Louth. Acreage, 1082; population of'the civil parish, 98; of the ecclesiastical, 317. The manor, with all the land, belongs to the Hornsby family. The living is a rectory, united with the vicarage of Burwell and Walmsgate, in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £159 with residence. The church, rebuilt in 1878, is a building of sandstone lined with chalk in the Early English style.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
