WITHAM-on-the-HILL, a parish in the wapentake
of BELTISLOE, parts of KESTEVEN, county of LINCOLN,
4 miles (S. W.) from Bourne, containing, with the
hamlets of Manthorpe and Toft with Lound, 563 inhabitants.
The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at
£6. l. 10., endowed with £600 private benefaction,
£200 royal bounty, and £1000 parliamentary grant,
and in the patronage of G. W. Johnson, Esq. The
church is dedicated to St. Andrew. There is a place
of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. James Hopson,
in 1719, bequeathed a rent-charge of £4 and the
produce of certain land, for teaching seventeen poor
children.