Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SUTTON-ST. EDMUND

SUTTON-ST. EDMUND, a chapelry, with a village, in Long Sutton parish, Lincoln; 6½ miles WNW of Wisbeach r. station. Post town, Parson-Drove, under Wisbeach. Acres, 5,473. Real property, £12,831. Pop., 730. Houses, 156. The land is devoted chiefly to graziing. The living is a p. curacy in diocese of Lincoln. Value, £386.* Patron, the Vicar of Long Sutton. The church was built in 1800. There are Baptist and Primitive Methodist chapels, an endowed school with £20 a year, and charities £255.


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

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Feature Description: "a chapelry, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Long Sutton CP       Lincolnshire AncC
Place: Sutton St Edmund

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