BUTTERWICK, a parish in Boston district, Lincoln; on the coast, near Boston Deeps, 4¼ miles E of Boston r. station. It includes an allotment in the East Fen; and has a post office under Boston. Acres, 4,420; of which 3,050 are water. Real property, £4,660. Pop., 605. Houses, 120. A large pond, which medical men declared to be highly pestiferous, was recently filled up and planted with vegetables. The living is a vicarage annexed to the vicarage of Frieston, in the diocese of Lincoln. The church has an early English octagonal font, and a rood turret. There are a Wesleyan chapel, an endowed school with £289 a year, and charities £160.

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