MARKBY, a parish in Spilsby district, Lincoln; near the coast, 3½ miles NE by E of Alford r. station. Posttown, Alford. Acres, 652. Real property, £1,107. Pop., 111. Houses, 25. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to L. Massingberd, Esq. A prio for black canons was founded here, before the time of King John, by Ralph Fitz-Gilbert; but has left no vestiges. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £118. Patron,L. Massingberd, Esq. The church is an old thatched building, with bell turret; and was recently in disrepair. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))