CLAXBY, a parish in the Wold division of the
hundred of CALCEWORTH, parts of LINDSEY, county of
LINCOLN, 3 miles (S.) from Alford, containing 97 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage, united to
the rectory of Well, in the archdeaconry and diocese of
Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £5. 3. 1. The
church, dedicated to St. Andrew, is a small thatched
building without a cemetery. A fine spring has its
source from a chalk hill in the centre of the parish, and
flows eastward. Here are vestiges of a Roman camp,
and several tumuli covered with trees.