BRATOFT, or Braytoft, a parish in Spilsby district, Lincoln; on the East Lincoln railway, 1 mile SW of Burgh station, and 4½ E by S of Spilsby. Post Town, Burgh, under Boston. Acres, 1,814. Real property, £3,073. Pop., 280. Houses, 55. The property is much subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £255.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church comprises nave and aisles, with clerestory; contains an ancient font; and has, over the chancel arch, a contemporary painting of the defeat of the Armada.

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