WELL, a parish in the Wold division of the hundred
of CALCEWORTH, parts of LINDSEY, county of
LINCOLN, 2 miles (S. S. W.) from Alford, containing,
with the chapelry of Derthorpe and the township of
Mawthorpe, 135 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
rectory, with the vicarage of Claxby united, in the
archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln, and in the patronage
of B. Dashwood, Esq. The church, dedicated
to St. Margaret, has been rebuilt in the form of an elegant
Grecian temple. Near this place, in 1725, two
urns, containing six hundred Roman coins, were found;
in the neighbourhood are three Celtic barrows, contiguous
to each other.