SURFLEET, a parish in the wapentake of KIRTON,
parts of HOLLAND, county of LINCOLN, 4 miles (N.)
from Spalding, containing 812 inhabitants. The living
is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln,
rated in the king's books at £11, endowed with
£1400 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of
- Pickworth, Esq. The church, dedicated to St. Lawrence,
is partly in the later style of English architecture,
and partly of earlier date, with a tower and spire.
There is a canal, called the Glen, by which the waters
of Pinchbeck are conveyed to the Welland river; and
another, termed the Grand Sluice, that conveys the waters
of the fen to Boston. This parish contains one of the
largest heronries in England. Here are two endowed
schools, one free for twenty children, the other for
children inhabiting Fen Ends.