GUNHOUSE, a township in West Halton and Frodingham parishes, and a chapelry partly also in Bottesford parish, Lincoln. The township lies on the river Trent, nearly opposite Keadby r. station, and 4¼ miles ESE of Crowle; has a wharf for shipment of iron ore, brought by rail from Scunthorpe; has also ironworks, erected since 1861. Pop., 197. Houses, 35. The chapelry includes Burringham township, and was constituted in 1862. Post town, Burringham, under Bawtry. Pop., 829. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £148.* Patron, the Bishop of Norwich. The church is plain; and there are a recent chapel of ease and three Methodist chapels.

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