THORESBY (North), a parish, with a village, in Louth district, Lincoln; on the East Lincoln railway, 8 miles N by W of Louth. It has a post-office under Louth, and a r. station. Acres, 2,485. Real property, £4,218. Pop., 824. Houses, 183. The property is subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £573.* Patron, the Rev. E. Bassett. The church is good; and there are two Methodist chapels, an endowed school with £30 a year, and charities £24.

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