Barnetby-Le-Wold is a
parish and village, with a station on
the main line of the Great Central railway,
at the junction of the branches to Lincoln
and Doncaster; it is 3.5 miles east from
Brigg, 15.5 west from Grimsby and 196
from London, in the North Lindsey division
of the county, parts of Lindsey, south
division of Yarborough Wapentake, Brigg
union, petty sessional division and county
court district, rural deanery of Yarborough
No. 1, archdeaconry of Stow and diocese
of Lincoln. The church of St. Mary, situated
on an eminence on the site of an earlier
church, is an edifice of stone, chalk
and brick, in the Early English style,
and consists of chancel, nave and a low
square western tower containing 3 bells:
the south wall and other portions are
Saxon, and the church contains a curious
and ancient leaden font, of the Norman
period, 1 foot 7 inches in height and
2 feet wide, and adorned externally with
three bands of arabesque-like scroll work,
cast in relief: in the south wall is a
small window with a horse- shoe arch,
above which is carved the figure of an
animal: there is a tablet to Robert Kilk,
obt. 1653: another, erected in 1891 by
local subscription, to the late Rev. Frederick
Thomas Harcourt Chambers, curate here
1889-90, and an oval marble tablet to
the Rev. Benjamin Street, a former vicar:
there are 270 sittings. The register dates
from the year 1753. The living is a vicarage,
net yearly value £281, including
235 acres of glebe, with residence is
the gift of the Bishop of Lincoln, and
held since 1892 by the Rev. Charles Frederick
Brotherton M.A., L.Th. of Durham University.
There is a Weslyan chapel, built in 1879,
and a Primitive Methodist chapel, built
in 1855, and rebuilt in 1893. Michael
Emerson's charity consists of 10 acres
of land in North Kelsey, producing annually
the sum of £10, for apprenticing
poor boys. Here is a Lodge of the Ancient
Order of Druids. Henry Monk Foster esq.
of Stonecroft, Barnetby, who is lord of
the manor, the Earl of Yarborough P.C.
and the trustees of T. T. Havercroft esq.
are the principal landowners. The soil
is limestone and sand; subsoil, marl.
The chief crops are wheat, turnips and
barley. The area is 2,576 acres of land
and 8 of water; rateable value, £8,385;
the population in 1891 was 926.
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