Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Woolsthorpe

Woolsthorpe.-- par. and vil., Lincolnshire - par., 2600 ac., pop. 598; vil., 6 miles SW. of Grantham; P.O.; a new church (1846) has replaced the old one, which is in ruins. There is a girls free school.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Woolsthorpe CP/AP       Lincolnshire AncC
Place: Woolsthorpe

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