Description
Salmonby, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, in one of the Wold valleys, on the river Steeping, 5 1/4 miles NE by E of Horncastle station on a branch of the G.N.R. Post town and telegraph office, Horncastle; money order office, Tetford. Acreage, 1001; population, 95. The manor belongs to the Hamilton-OgiIvy family. There is a chalybeate spring. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; gross value, £241 with residence. The church, originally erected in the time of Edward III., was restored and almost rebuilt in 1871, and is a small building of stone in the Perpendicular style. Bishop Wickham was rector.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
