Grassby is a parish and a village, which lies a little off the high road from Brigg to Caistor, 2 ¼  miles north-west from the North Kelsey station on the Lincoln and Cleethorpes branch of the Great Central (late M. S. and L.) railway, 3  north-north-east from Caistor, and 6 south-east from Brigg, in the Louth division of the county, parts of Lindsey, south division of Yarborough wapentake, Caistor, petty sessional division, union and county court district, and in the rural deanery of Caistor,, archdeaconry of Stow and diocese of Lincoln.  The church of All Saints is an edifice of Kirton and Normanby stone, in the Gothic style of the 13^th century, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, south porch, organ chamber, vestry and western tower with spire containing a clock and 4 bells, two of which were added in 1869, as  memorials respectively to Henry Selwood esq, and to Elizabeth (ffytche) wife of the Rev. George Clayton Tennyson, rector of Somersby from 1806, and mother of Lord Tennyson: one of the two remaining bells is dated 1500; the clock was regilded and repaired in 1918; the east window is stained and there is a memorial to the Rev. Charles Turner B.A. vicar here from 1835, and his wife, erected by Lord Tennyson: the  north aisle was rebuilt in 1850, and the remainder of the church in 1869, under the direction of Charles Buckeridge esq. Architect; the organ was built in 1883 at a cost of £145; a war memorial tablet in marble was erected I  1921 in memory of the Grasby men who fell in the Great War; there are 156 sittings.  The register of baptisms and burials dates from the year 1653; that of marriages from 1754.  The living is a viagre, net yearly value£175, including 160 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Lord Tennyson, and held since 1916 by the Rev. William John Price B.A. of  Ayerst Hall Cambridge.  The Wesleyan chapel here was built in 1840, and there is a Primitive Methodist chapel, built in 1841, enlarged in 1862 and rebuilt in 1893.  A Reading and recreation room was opened in 1920.  There is no lord of the manor.  The soil is various; sub-soil, clay, sand and chalk. The chief crops are wheat, barley, market garden produce and turnips. The area is 1,141 acres; rateable value, £1829; population in 1911, 373.

Parish Clerk. J. R. Frankish.
Post, M. O., T. & Telephone Call & E. D. Office - Sidney O. Sumner, sub-postmaster, Letters through Lincoln.
Public Elementary (non-provided) School (mixed).  Rebuilt in 1855 & enlarged in 1897, for 140 children;  Elton E. Wescott, master.
Carriers - George Clark, to Brigg , thurs & to Caistor, sat.;  William King, to Grimsby, irregularly.
Price Rev. William John B.A. (vicar)  Vicarage

Commercial

Marked thus* farm 150 acres or over.
Barron Edward , farmer
Bell Frederick James, carpenter
Clarke George,carrier
Coupland Charles, farmer
Crowston  Mary A. (Mrs)  Cross Keys P.H.
Frankish  Herbert, shoemaker
Frankish John R. carpenter, assistant overseer & parish clerk
Frow Charles  Henry, tailor
Good Amos, fellmonger
Hasnip Frederick A. blacksmith
Hilton Arthur, farmer*
Keighley Robert , farmer

King William , carrier
Kirkby William & Son, grocers
Markham George William , farmer*, The Hall house
Markham Philip , farmer* Bentley House
Middleton Sophia (Mrs), farmer
Milner Frank Albert, farmer, Manor farm
Papworth Chas. Richard , market gardner
Sellers Thomas , cowkeeper
Smith Edwin, farmer
Spolton Samuel , beer retailer
Sumner Sidney O. grocer, Post office.
Wilmore William , farmer

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