Stallingborough, Lincolnshire

Description
Stallingborough, a parish, with Stallingborough village and Little London hamlet, in Lincolnshire, on the M.S. & L.R., on which it has a station, 4 miles WNW of Great Grimsby. It has a post office (S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Keelby. Acreage, 4517; population, 449. It extends to the Humber, where there is a coastguard station, a lighthouse, and a ferry. Much of the land is under grass. The manor belongs to the Boucherett family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; gross value, £230 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Lincoln. The church, erected in 1780, is a plain building of brick, consisting of chancel, nave, and a western tower, and containing some tombs and memorials of the Ayscough family. There are Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels.