Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SUTTON-ST. JAMES

SUTTON-ST. JAMES, a chapelry, with a village, in Long Sutton parish, Lincoln; 4 miles SW of Long Sutton r. station. It has a post-office under Wisbeach. Acres, 2,946. Real property, £6,868. Pop., 526. Houses, 115. An ancient cross, with octangular stepped base, is on Ravensbank, to the W of the village. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £66. Patron, the Vicar of Long Sutton. The church is ancient, and has lost its nave. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels, a national school, and charities £60.


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

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

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