BUTTERWICK (West), with Kelfield, a townshipchapelry in Owston parish, Lincoln; on the river Trent, 3½ miles S of Keadby r. station. It has a post office, of the name of West Butterwick, under Bawtry. Real property, £4,995. Pop., 907. Houses, 203. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £300.* Patron, the Vicar of Owston. The church was built in 1841. There are three dissenting chapels and a national school.

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