Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Broadholme

Broadholme, township and hamlet, Thorney par., N. Notts, on border of co., 7 miles W. of Lincoln, pop. 95; here the first Prfmonastratensian priory ever built in England was founded in the reign of Stephen.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "township and hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Thorney CP/AP       Nottinghamshire AncC
Place: Broadholme

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