Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SKIDBROOK

SKIDBROOK, a village and a parish in Louth district, Lincoln. The village stands 1½ mile from the coast, and 8 ENE of Louth r. station; and has a post-office under Louth. The parish contains also the hamlet of Saltfleet; and comprises 2,165 acres of land, and 1,290 of foreshore. Real property, £5,331. Pop., 361. Houses, 85. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £271.* Patron, the Rev. J. M. Phillips. The church is old but good; and there are two Methodist chapels.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Louth RegD/PLU       Lincolnshire AncC
Place: Skidbrooke

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