AYLESBY is a village and parish, 5 and a half miles WSW of Grimsby containing 172 souls and 2,110 acres, T T Drake Esq is lord of the manor, owner of most of the soil, impropiator and patron of the church (St Lawrence), which us a perpetual curacy, now valued at £73, and enjoyed by the Rev John T Drake of Amersham, Bucks, for whom the Rev A Creighton of Grimsby officiates. Here is a water corn mill, and an excellent gravel pit, and the Tyrwhitt family had formerly a seat here.

Thomas Horton     Carpenter
Executors of John Scrivener     Corn millers
Theophilus Clark     Farmer
John Patchett     Farmer
William Torr     Farmer
Frances Sowerby     Farmer

Source: White’s Directory, 1856