The village lies in the Lincolnshire Wolds, a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty; the parish covers about 600 acres (2.4 km2).

[2] Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate, was born and brought up in Somersby, the son of the rector, and the fourth of twelve children.

[6] In such poems as The Lady of Shalott[7] Tennyson uses the word "wold" for a hill in a sense found in Lincolnshire.

Stone from the now disused Somersby Quarry, an outcrop of Spilsby Sandstone, was used to repair the church.

[10] Somersby Grange is a Grade I listed Georgian manor house which stands adjacent to the rectory where Tennyson was born.