GLANDFORD-BRIGG, or BRIDGE, a market-town and chapelry in the parish of WRAWBY, southern division of the wapentake of YARBOROUGH, parts of LINDSEY, county of LINCOLN, 24 miles (N. by E.) from Lincoln, and 153 (N. by W.) from London, containing 1674 inhabitants. This place was originally only a small fishing hamlet; it is now a well built town, enjoying a plentiful supply of water from the river Ancholme, a branch of which runs through it, another , passing at the distance of a quarter of a mile westward. The bridge has lately been taken down, and a new one is now being erected. A considerable trade in corn, coal, and timber, is carried on; and here are several fur manufactories, besides tanneries and fellmongers establishments; and it is asserted, that more persons are employed here in dressing rabbitskins than in any other provincial town in the kingdom. A great improvement has been made by draining the Ancholme level, the expense attending which is defrayed by a tax on land, and a duty on the tonnage of the river. The market is on Thursday, and a fair is held on the 5th of August. The petty sessions are held here once a fortnight; and the town is within the jurisdiction of a court of requests for the recovery of debts under £5, held at Alford every month, under an act passed in the 47th of George III. The chapel, dedicated to St. Mary, was erected in 1699, at the joint expense of four gentlemen, who endowed it with certain estates vested in their respective heirs, and the trustees of the free school. The Society of Friends, Independents, and Primitive and Wesleyan Methodists, have each a place of worship; and there is a chapel for the Roman Catholics. The free grammar school was founded in 1669, pursuant to the will of Sir John Nelthorpe, Bart., who endowed it with certain lands vested in trustees for that purpose. Boys born in the town of Brigg, and in all other parishes where the founder possessed estates, are entitled to gratuitous instruction in the Latin and Greek languages; and all other boys, wheresoever born, were to be taught reading, writing, and accounts, free of expense, by a master and an usher, for each of whom the founder desired that a house should be erected: the number of scholars is limited to eighty. In the reign of John, an hospital was founded here by Adam Paynel, which was a cell to the abbey of Selby in Yorkshire; but all traces of it have disappeared.