SCAWBY, a parish in the eastern division of the
wapentake of MANLEY, parts of LINDSEY, county of
LINCOLN, 2 miles (W. S.W.) from Glandford-Bridge,
containing, with the township of Sturton, 838 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry
of Stow, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the
king's books at £7, and in the patronage of Sir H. Nelthorpe,
Bart. The church is dedicated to St. Hibald.
There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists.
A free school, founded in 1705, by Richard Nelthorpe,
is endowed with land now let for £30 a year, for the
instruction of the children of the Nelthorpe tenantry.