BURGH-in-the-MARSH, a parish in the Marsh division of the wapehtake of. CANDLESHOE, parts of LINDSEY, county of LINCOLN, 7 miles (E; by S.) from Spilsby, containing 903 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, to which that of Winthorpe was united in 1729, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £ 13.6. 8., endowed with £200 royal bounty, and £800 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Bishop of Lincoln. The church is dedicated to St. Peter. Jane Palmer gave a rent-charge of £20 for the endowment of a free school for poor children.