Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SOMERCOTES (South)

SOMERCOTES (South), a parish, with a village, in Louth district, Lincoln; 8 miles NE of Louth r. station. Post town, Louth. Acres, 2,597. Real property, £5,966. Pop., 419. Houses, 85. The property is much subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, 620.* Patron, the Duchy of Lancaster. The church has a lofty spire, which serves as a sea-mark. There are two Methodist chapels, and an endowed Church school. Cardinal de Somercote was a native.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: South Somercotes AP/CP       Louth RegD/PLU       Lincolnshire AncC
Place names: SOMERCOTES     |     SOMERCOTES SOUTH     |     SOUTH SOMERCOTES
Place: South Somercotes

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