SALEBY, a parish in the Wold division of the hundred of CALCEWORTH, parts of LINDSEY, county of LINCOLN, 1 mile (N. by E.) from Alford, containing, with Thoresthorpe, 235 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £ 4, and in the patronage of the Trustees of Alford school. The church is dedicated to St. Margaret.