Sibsey, Lincolnshire

Description
Sibsey, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire. The village stands adjacent to the East Lincolnshire section of the G.N.R., on which it has a station, 5 miles NNE of Boston. It has a post and money order office under Boston; telegraph office, Sibsey railway station. The parish contains also Frithbank hamlet, and comprises 6688 acres; population of the civil parish, 1101; of the ecclesiastical, 896. There is a parish council consisting of eleven members. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; gross value, £295 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church, said to have been originally built towards the close of the llth century, is a large building of stone in the Norman, Early English, and later styles, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch, vestry, and lofty embattled western tower, which contains a fine peal of eight bells. It has some good stained windows and an Early English font. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels. Northlands is a hamlet 2 miles N. There are endowed schools at Sibsey, Frithbank, and Northlands.