MORTON, a parish in the wapentake of AVELAND,
parts of KESTEVEN, county of LINCOLN, 2 miles (N.)
from Bourne, containing, with the chapelry of Hanthorpe,
or Harmthorpe, 765 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage, united, in 1732, to that of Haconby,
in the archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln, rated in
the king's books at £9. 1. 10., and in the patronage
of the Bishop of Lincoln. The church, dedicated to St.
John the Baptist, is a handsome cruciform, structure,
with a lofty and finely-groined tower rising from the
intersection: it has portions in the Norman, and in
the early, decorated, and later English styles of architecture.
Rebecca Leaband, in. 1717 bequeathed land
producing a trifling income, for the education of poor
children.