Ropsley, Lincolnshire

Description
Ropsley, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, on the main line of the G.N.R. The village stands 5 miles NE of Great Ponton station, and 6 ESE of Grantham, and has a post and money order office under Grantham; telegraph office, Grantham. The parish contains also the hamlet of Little Humby. Acreage, 3061; population of the civil parish, 597; of the ecclesiastical, 715. The manor belongs to the Duke of Rutland, who is chief landowner. The living is a rectory, with Little Humby annexed, in the diocese of Lincoln ; net value, £400 with residence. Patron, the Duke of Rutland. The church is an ancient edifice of stone, chiefly in the Norman and Early English styles, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch, and a western tower with broach spire; it has an ancient tomb of the 14th century. There are a Wesleyan chapel, an endowed school with £12 a year, and 25 acres of townland. Bishop Fox, the founder of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and of the Free Grammar School ate Grantham, was a native.