OWERSBY, a parish in the northern division of the wapentake of WALSHCROFT, parts of LINDSEY, county of LINCOLN, 5 miles (N.W. byN.) from Market-Rasen, containing 408 inhabitants, of which number 272 are in North, and 136 in South, Owersby. The living is a discharged vicarage, with those of Kirby and Osgodby, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £8. 18. 4., and in the patronage of Lord Monson. The church is dedicated to St. Martin. There is a school with a trifling endowment by Dunn Rawvy.