a town of the hundred of Ness, and division of Kesteven, in the county of Lincoln, eighty- eight miles from London. It is situated in a fenney but fertile district on the river Welland. The market-day is Thursday. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 603; in 1811 to 899, in 1821 to 1016, and in 1831 to 1091.