KEELBY, a parish in the eastern division of
the wapentake of YARBOROUGH, parts of LINDSEY,
county of LINCOLN, 7 miles (N. E. by N.) from Caistor,
containing 462 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln,
endowed with £200 royal bounty. Lord Yarborough
was patron in 1792. The church is dedicated to St.
Bartholomew. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan
Methodists.