GAUTBY, a parish in the southern division of the wapentake of GARTREE, parts of LINDSEY, county of LINCOLN, 6 miles (W. N. W.) from Horncastle, containing 118 inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £6.3,4., endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Crown. The church is dedicated to All Saints.