SAXELBY, a parish in the wapentake of LAWRESS,
parts of LINDSEY, county of LINCOLN, 6 miles (N. W.
by W.) from Lincoln, containing, with the township of
Ingleby, 561 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Stow, and diocese of
Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £ 10, endowed
with £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the
Bishop of Lincoln. The church is dedicated to St. Botolph.
There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists.