TYDD-ST. MARY, a parish, with a village and with part of Tydd-Gote hamlet, in Holbeach district, Lincoln; on the Peterborough and Sutton-Bridge railway, 3 miles SW of Sutton-Bridge. It has a station on the railway, and a post-office, of the name of Tydd, under Wisbeach. Acres, with part of Wingland extra-parochial tract, 4,845: of which 200 are water. Real property, £10,978. Pop., 977. Houses, 213. The property is much sub-Divided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £1,250.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is very late Norman, and has a tower and spire. There are two mission-houses, two Methodist chapels, a boys' free school, two national schools, and charities £200. Breakspear, who became Pope Adrian IV., is said to have been rector.

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