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 Great Central section 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, petty sessional division, rural district, county court district, and rural deanery of Caistor, archdeaconry of Lindsey and diocese of Lincoln. 
The church of All Saints originally built in 950 AD was completely rebuilt in the 13^th century; is an edifice of Kirton and Normanby stone, in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, south porch, sacristy, vestry and western tower with spire containing a clock and 4 bells, two of which were presented in 1869, by Emily and Louisa Selwood, who became the wives of Alfred Lord Tennyson and Charles Tennyson respectively, 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 was presented by Lord Tennyson; 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, the tomb of the 13^th century builder of the church is in the sacristy; the organ was built in 1883; 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 dates from the year 1653; that of marriages from 1754. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £335, including 160 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Lord Tennyson, and held since 1932 by the Rev. James Hutton. 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 vicar is the principal landowner. 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 2350 acres; population in 1931, 351.
By the County of Lincoln, Parts of Lindsey Review Order, 1936, the civil parish of Clixby was added to Grasby.

Post, M. O., T. & T. E. D. Office (available for calls to places within a limited distance). Letters through Lincoln.
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CLIXBY is a parochial chapelry, in Caistor ecclesiastical parish, 3 ¼ north-east from North Kelsey station on the Great Central section of the London and North Eastern railway, 2 north-by-west from Caistor and 7 south-east from Brigg, on the road between these towns, in the Caistor rural deanery, archdeaconry of Lindsey and diocese of Lincoln. The church of All Hallows, which consists of the chancel only of the original structure, has a bell turret at the west end; on the floor of the sanctuary is a monumental slab to Robert Blanchard, a priest, with an imperfect inscription in Lombardic characters; on the north wall is a carved oak memorial tablet in memory of Mrs Agnes Dennison Hutchinson, who died 20^th September 1922; the church was restored in 1889, at a cost of £400, under the directions of Mr Hodgson Fowler, architect, and affords 128 sittings, in the churchyard is an ancient cross, which was restored also by Mr Fowler. The register is included in that of Caistor. The living is a chapelry, annexed to the vicarage of Caistor with Holton-le-Moor, joint net yearly value £400, including 21 acres of Glebe, in the gift of the Bishop of Lincoln and held since 1936 by the Rev. Edward Howard Weston, who is a surrogate and resides at Caistor. R. A. Craven-Smith-Milnes esq. Of Winkburn Hall, Notts and Mr A Hilton are the principal landowners. The soil is partly sandy and light loam; sub-soil, chalk. The chief crops are potatoes, wheat, oats, turnips and sugar beet.

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