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MARKET TOWNS OF LINCOLNSHIRE (from SDUK Penny Cyclopedia)

Spilsby in 1839

Spilsby is in the soke of Bolingbroke, in the parts of Lindsey, 133 miles from London through Boston. The parish comprehends 2,340 acres, with a population. in 1831 of 1,384, of which a very small portion was agricultural. The town consists of four streets meeting in a spacious market-place. The town-hall, a plain brick building on arches, stands at one end of a row of houses in the centre of the market-place, and the market-cross, a plain octangular shaft rising from a quadrangular base and terminating in a vane, at the other end. The church is an irregular pile, having at the west end a handsome tower of later date than the rest of the building : it contains several ancient monuments. There is a weekly market on Monday. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Lincoln, of the clear yearly value of £109. There were in 1833 three dame-schools with 50 children ; one day-school, partially endowed, with 60 scholars; a national day and Sunday school, with 75 children in the week and 70 on Sundays ; another national school with thirty scholars ; three other day-schools with 52 scholars; and one Sunday-school with 110 children.