WOODHALL, a parish in the southern division of
the wapentake of GARTREE, parts of LINDSEY, county
of LINCOLN, 2 miles (W. S. W.) from Horncastle, containing
191 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage,
in the peculiar jurisdiction of the manorial
court of Kirkstead, rated in the king's books at £ 13,
endowed with £300 private benefaction, and £400 royal
bounty, and in the patronage of the Bishop of Lincoln.
The church is dedicated to St. Margaret.