SAXELBY, a village and a parish in the district and county of Lincoln. The village stands near the rivulet Till, the Lincoln and Gainsborough and Lincoln and Retford railways, and the Foss dyke navigation, 6 miles W N W of Lincoln; and has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Lincoln. The parish contains also the hamlets of North Ingleby and South Ingleby, and comprises 4, 270 acres. Real property, £7,077. Pop., 1, 174. Houses, 260. The property is subdivided. Wharves forcoal and corn are on the Foss dyke; and there are brickfields and a barrow. The living is a vicarage, united with Ingleby, in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £220.* Patron, the Bishop of Lincoln. The church was recentlyrepaired, and has a fine tower. There are three Methodistchapels and a national school.

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