Description
Wootton, a parish, with a village, in Lincolnshire, 2 1/2 miles NNW of Ulceby station on the M.S. & L.R. It has a post office under Ulceby; money order and telegraph office, Ulceby. Acreage, 3067; population, 506. The manor belongs to the Earl of Yarborough. Wootton Hall is the chief residence. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; gross value, £280 with residence. The church is an ancient edifice of stone in the Early English style. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
