NORTHORPE, a parish in the wapentake of CORRINGHAM,
parts of LINDSEY, county of LINCOLN, 8
miles (N.E.) from Gainsborough, containing 127 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage, in the
archdeaconry of Stow, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in
the king's books at £4, endowed with £400 Bank annuities
and £119 private benefaction, and £800 royal
bounty, and in the patronage of the Bishop of Lincoln.
The church is dedicated to St. John the Baptist. The
river Eau runs through the parish and falls into the Trent.