WALTHAM, a parish, with a village, in Caistor district, Lincoln; on the East Lincoln railway, 3½ miles S by W of Great Grimsby. It has a post-office under Grimsby, a r. station, and a temperance hall. Acres, 2,350. Real property, £3,828. Pop., 856. Houses, 190. The property is much subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £400.* Patron, the Chapter of Southwell. The church was partially restored in 1867. There are two Methodist chapels. A national school was built in 1868.

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