Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WOOLSTHORPE

WOOLSTHORPE, a parish, with a village, in Grantham district, Lincoln; 3½ miles SSW of Sedgebrook r. station, and 5½ WSW of Grantham. It has a post-office under Grantham. Acres, 2,600. Real property, £3,388. Pop., 615. Houses, 118. The manor belongs to the Duke of Rutland . The limits include part of the grounds of the Duke's seat of Belvoir Castle. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £191.* Patron, the Duke of Rutland. The old church is in ruins; and the new one was built in 1846. There is a free school for girls.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a parish, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Woolsthorpe CP/AP       Grantham RegD/PLU       Lincolnshire AncC
Place: Woolsthorpe

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