ASTERBY, a parish in the northern division of the wapentake of GARTREE, parts of LINDSEY, county of LINCOLN, 7 miles (N.) from Horncastle, containing 189 inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £8. 0. 10., endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of Lady Southwell. The church is dedicated to St. Peter. Here is a small endowment for the instruction of poor children, the bequest of Anthony Ascham, in 1638.