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1933
Grasby is a parish and a village, which lies a little off the high road from Brigg to Caistor, 2¼ miles north-east from the North Kelsey station on the Lincoln and Cleethorpes branch of the Great Central Region of the London and North Eastern 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 13th 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 In 1921 in memory of the Grasby men who fell in the Great War; there are 156 sittings. Part of the shaft of a medieval cross has been placed in the church. The register of baptisms and burials datesfrom the year 1653; that of marriages from 1754. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £180, including 160 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Lord Tennyson, and held since 1932 by the Rev. James Hutton B.D. of Indiana and Trinity College, Toronto. There are two Methodist chapels , one of which was built in 1840, the other built in 1841, being enlarged and rebuilt in 1893. A Reading and recreation room was opened in 1920. The land is mostly owned by the farmers. The soil is various; sub-soil, clay, sand, light loam and chalk. The chief crops are wheat, barley, sugar beet, market garden produce and turnips. The area is 1,089 acres; population in 1921, 338.
Post, M. O., T. & T. E. D. Office (available for calls to places within a limited distance). Letters through Lincoln
Carriers -Harold Gibons, to Grimsby, Monday & Friday. Arthur Brown, to Brigg , thurs.
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