Somersby is both a village and a parish in the Lincolnshire Wolds, 6 miles northwest of Spilsby and 7 miles eastnortheast of Horncastle. The parish covers about 600 acres. Alfred Lord Tennyson, the Poet Laureate, was born and raised here and was also baptised in the Anglican parish church of St. Margaret. The church is an ancient sandstone building, built some time before 1612 and restored in 1863-5.