Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for FISKERTON

FISKERTON, a parish in the district and county of Lincoln; on the river Witham, and on the Lincoln and Boston railway, near Washingborough r. station, and 5 miles E of Lincoln. It has a post office under Lincoln. Acres, 2, 040. Real property, £5, 237. Pop., 524. Houses, 112. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £447.* Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Peterborough. The church is partly Norman; has a brass of 1490; and was reported in 1859 to be unsatisfactory. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Free Methodists. Charities, £34.


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

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

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