Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HUMBERSTONE

HUMBERSTONE, a parish, with a village, in Caistor district, Lincoln; adjacent to the Humber, 1½ mile E of Waltham r. station, and 4 SE by S of Great Grimsby. Post town, Grimsby. Acres, 8, 145; of which 5, 215 are water. Real property, £3, 514. Pop., 277. Houses, 56. The property belongs to Lord Carrington. A small Benedictine abbey was founded here, in the time of Henry II.; and was given, at the dissolution, to John Cheke, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £100. Patron, Lord Carrington. The church was rebuilt in 1710; is a brick structure, with a tower; and contains several monuments, one of which is to Mathew Humberstone, Esq., who was a foundling, took the name of the parish, acquired great riches, died in 1709, and left £300 to erect his monument, £1, 000 to rebuild the church, £1, 100 to erect a grammar school and alms houses, and an annuity of £40 toward the vicar's income. There are a Wesleyan chapel and a girls' free school.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Humberston AP/CP       Caistor RegD/PLU       Lincolnshire AncC
Place: Humberston

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