In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Fotherby like this:
FOTHERBY, a parish in Louth district, Lincoln; near the East Lincoln railway, 3 miles N by W of Louth. It has a post office under Louth, and a side station, of the name of Fotherby-Gatehouse, on the railway. Acres, 1, 400. Real property, £2, 342. Pop., 267. Houses, 62. The property is subdivided. ...
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Valne, £150. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church originally was of the 13th century, and consisted of nave, north aisle, and chancel, with western tower and south porch; but it underwent changes denuding it of the aisle, raising a pent-house on the tower, and rendering the rest of averagely late perpendicular English; and it eventually passed into so decayed a state that a resolution was taken, in 1861, to rebuild it entire, and on the original model. The new church was opened in 1864. There are Wesleyan, P. Methodist, and Free Methodist chapels.
Fotherby through time
Fotherby is now part of East Lindsey district. Click here for graphs and data of how East Lindsey has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Fotherby itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Fotherby, in East Lindsey and Lincolnshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/12278
Date accessed: 20th April 2024
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