a market-town of the county of Gal. Lincoln, in the hundred of Corringham, and the Lindsey division, 148 miles from London. It is advantageously situated on the right bank of the river Trent, by which it is divided from Nottinghamshire. The tide comes in with more rapidity, and rises higher, than in any other of the ports of England except Chepstow, though it is nearly forty miles from the Humber. The Trent being thus far navigable, conveys the agricultural produce of the vicinity to distant markets, and makes Gainsborough a kind of emporium for such heavy articles as coal, salt, timber, iron, and others; but it has no manufactures, and little other trade. There is no corporate body of magistrates. The market is held on Tuesday. The population amounted in 1801 to 4506, in 1811 to 5172, in 1821 to 5893, and in 1831 to 6658.