YARBOROUGH, or Yarburgh (St. John the Baptist), a parish, in the union of Louth, Marsh division of the hundred of Louth-Esk, parts of Lindsey, county of Lincoln, 5 miles (N. E. by N.) from Louth ; containing 210 inhabitants. The parish consists of 1279 acres, and its eastern border is crossed by the Louth navigation; the surface is flat, and the soil of a clayey quality. The living is a discharged rectory, valued in the king’s books at £9. 13. 6.; net income, £226; patron, Nicholas Edmund Yarburgh, Esq., of Heslington Hall, near York, who is lord of the manor, and owns half of the parish. The glebe contains 235 acres, the tithes having been commuted for land and a money payment in 1807. The church is an ancient edifice, with a square tower. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis Fifth Edition Published London; by S. Lewis and Co., 13, Finsbury Place, South. M. DCCC. XLV.
