Usselby

Usselby is a hamlet in the civil parish of Osgodby, in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is approximately 3 miles (5 km) north-west from the town of Market Rasen. In 1931 the parish had a population of 54.^[1] On 1 April 1936 the parish was abolished to form Osgodby.^[2][3]

Usselby
Church of St Margaret, Usselby
Usselby Location within Lincolnshire
OS grid reference	TF097936
• London	155 mi (249 km) S
Civil parish	Osgodby
District	West Lindsey
Shire county	Lincolnshire
Region	East Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Market Rasen
Postcode district	LN8
Police	Lincolnshire
Fire	Lincolnshire
Ambulance	East Midlands
UK Parliament	Gainsborough
List of places UK England Lincolnshire 53.428578°N 0.350416°W / 53.428578; -0.350416

The parish church is dedicated to Saint Margaret, and is a Grade II listed building dating from the 14th century and 1749, with 1889 alterations, in ironstone with red brick, by Hodgson Fowler of Sheffield. Over the west door is a tablet inscribed "Queen Ann's bounty fell to this church in MDCCXLIX."^[4] The early 18th-century Queen Anne's Bounty acts of parliament provided extra income for poor incumbents.

Usselby Hall is also a Grade II listed building, dating from the mid-18th century with early 19th-century alterations and additions, and built with red brick. It was owned and lived in by Lord Tennyson's grandfather. During the Second World War it was used as a German Officer prisoner-of-war camp.^[5] Usselby Hall now covers most of the site of the Usselby deserted medieval village.^[6]

Claxby and Usselby railway station opened here in 1848 and closed in 1960.^[7]