FIRSBY, a parish in Spilsby district, Lincoln; on the river Steeping and the Great Northern railway, 2 miles SSW of Burgh, and 4 SE of Spilsby. It has a station with telegraph on the railway; at the junction of the Spilsby branch. Post town, Burgh, under Boston. Acres, 910. Real property, £2, 201. Pop., 237. Houses, 53. The living is a rectory, united with the vicarage of Great Steeping, in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £242. Patron, the Rev. Joseph Walls. The church was recently restored. There are a Wesleyan chapel, and charities £13. Bishop Warburton was rector.

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