KELSEY (SOUTH), a parish in the northern division of the wapentake of WALSHCROFT, parts of LINDSEY, county of LINCOLN, 5 miles (W. by S.) from Caistor, comprising the united parishes of St. Mary and St. Nicholas, and containing 623 inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln, rated jointly in the king's books at £19. 15., and in the alternate patronage of the Crown and the Lord of the Manor. The church of St. Nicholas is a modern edifice attached to the ancient tower; that of St. Mary has gone to ruins. Here was formerly an Alien priory, a cell to the abbey of Seize in Normandy, but there are no remains. The river Ancholme passes through the parish.