SALMONBY. a parish in Horncastle district, Lincoln; on the river Steeping, 5½ miles N E by E of Horncastle r. station. Post-town, Horncastle. Acres, 996. Real property, £1, 707. Pop., 101. Houses, 20. The manor belongs to the Right Hon. R. A. Hamilton. There is a chalybeate spring. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £308.* Patron, the Rev. R. F. Ward. The church is of the time of Edward III. Bishop Wickham was rector.

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