SALEBY, a village and a parish in Louth district, Lincoln. The village stands 2¼ miles N N E of Alford r.station, and has a post-office under Alford. The parish contains also the hamlet of Thoresthorpe, and comprises 1, 770 acres. Real property, £2, 526. Pop., 244. Houses, 44. The manor belongs to Sidney College, Cambridge. The Grange is the seat of J. S. Lister, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £240.* Patrons, the Governors of Alford grammar school. The church was recently rebuilt. There are a Wesleyan chapel, a national school, and charities £17.

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