BARNOLDBY-LE-BECK is a pleasant villages and parish, 5 miles SSW of Grimsby, containing 269 souls and 1208 acres.

William Phillipson Esq is lord of the manor, but most of the soil belongs to F Iles Esq, R Nainby Esq, C Hewson., Misses Swan and a few smaller owners. The Church (St Helen) is a neat fabric with a tower and three bells and was newly roofed in 1839. The rectory…is in the patronage of the Chapter of Southwell Collegiate Church and incumbency of the Rev M H Becher MA who has a good rectory house.The tithes were commuted for 216 acres of land at enclosure.

Here is a Wesleyan and a Primitive Methodist Chapel, the former built in 1832 and the latter in 1839.

The parish is entitled to send free scholars to Laceby School and two inmates to the Ashby Almshouses. The poor have 20s a year left by Tristram and Prince Sugar, and now paid out of Mr Nainby’s estate.

Rev Michael Harry Becher MA     Rector
Thomas Bennett Harneis     Esq
Cornelius Hewson     Grocer
Cornelius Hewson sen and jun     Farmers
Robert Hird     Gardener
Francis Iles      Manor House
Richard, Charles M and William Nainby esq
John Richard Nainby     Farmer
Richard Pawson     Parish clerk
John Shaw     Grocer
Edward Smith     Blacksmith
Eleanor Tupling     Vict. Ship
John Waters     Shoemaker

Carriers pass to Grimsby.

Source: White’s Directory, 1856