FARFORTH, a parish in the Wold division of the
hundred of LOUTH-ESKE, parts of LINDSEY, county of
LINCOLN, 6 miles (S. by W.) from Louth, containing,
with Maiden-Well, 94 inhabitants. The living is a
discharged rectory, with the vicarage of Maiden-Well,
united in 1753 to the rectory of Ruckland, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's
books at £6. 6. 8. The church is dedicated to St. Peter.