TATHWELL (St. Vedast), a parish, in the union of Louth, Wold division of the hundred of Louth-Eske, parts of Lindsey, county of Lincoln, 3 ¼ miles (S. by W.) from Louth ; containing 365 inhabitants, and comprising about 4350 acres. Tathwell Hall, erected by the Hanby family, from whom the estate passed, in the latter part of the seventeenth century, to the Chaplins, was rebuilt in 1841, by Charles Chaplin, Esq., the present lord of the manor and impropriator. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £ 10, and in the gift of the Bishop of Lincoln, with a net income of £345 : the church, for the most part rebuilt, contains monuments to the Hanby and Chaplin families. On Bully hill, in the parish, are six barrows, in a line running from east to west; and on another eminence, about half a mile from the barrows, are the remains of two ancient encampments.
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.
