Description
Upton, a parish, with a township, in Lincolnshire, 2 miles from Lea station on the G.N.R., and 4 1/2 miles SE of Gainsborough. It has a post office under Gainsborough; money order and telegraph office, Willingham. Acreage, 3508; population of the civil parish, 503; of the ecclesiastical parish, with Heapham and Kexby, 645. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln, consolidated with Heap-ham; net value, £260 with residence. The church is an ancient structure of stone, was restored and partially rebuilt in 1867, and was modernized in 1880. There is a Wesleyan chapel. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels at Kexby.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
