GOXHILL, a village and a parish in Glanford-Brigg district, Lincoln. The village stands adjacent to the Manchester and Lincolnshire railway, 4½ miles E by S of Barton-upon-Humber; and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Ulceby. The parish comprises 5, 860 acres of land, and 2, 930 of water. Real property, £8, 184. Pop., 1, 192. Houses, 267. The property is subdivided. The manor belongs to G. Bradley, Esq. Bricks and tiles are made. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £210.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is a fine ancient structure; has a lofty tower; and contains an effigies of the time of Richard I. There are chapels for Independents, Baptists, Wesleyans, and Primitive Methodists, a national school, and charities £13. Remain s of a Cistertian nunnery, founded in 1185, exist in the dormitory and its substructure.

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