CLEE, a parish in the wapentake of BRADLEYHAVERSTOE,
parts of LINDSEY, county of LINCOLN, 2
miles (S. E. by E.) from Great Grimsby, containing,
with the township of Clecthorpe, 560 inhabitants. The
living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and
diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £8, endowed
with £800 royal bounty, and £600 parliamentary
grant, and in the patronage of the Bishop of Lincoln.
The church, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, has some fine
-Norman piers and arches, and contains an ancient
circular font. In this parish are many of those fountains
called Blow Wells, which are deep circular pits,
supplying a continual flow of water. The custom of
strewing the floor of the church, on Trinity-Sunday,
with grass mown for that purpose, is perpetuated by
a small legacy in land, left by a widow lady.