ELSHAM, or Ailesham, a parish, with a railway station, in Glanford - Brigg district, Lincoln; on the Wolds, 4½ miles NE of Glanford-Brigg. Post - town, Barnetby, under Ulceby. Acres, 4, 110. Real property, £5, 654. Pop., 409. Houses, 87. The property is all in one estate. Elsham Hall belonged formerly to the Thompsons, and is now the seat of T. G. Corbett, Esq. An Angustinian priory was founded at Elsham, in the 12th century, by Beatrice de Amundeville. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £46. Patron, T. G. Corbett, Esq. The church is tolerable; and there is a -Wesleyan chapel.

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