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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
LIMBER-MAGNA, a village and a parish in Caistor district, Lincoln. The village stands on the Wolds, 4 miles S by E of Ulceby r. station, and 5 N by E of Caistor; and has a post office, of the name of Limber, under Ulceby. The parish comprises 5,180 acres. Real property, £8,213. Pop., 514. Houses, 91. The manor belongs to the Earl of Yarborough. Au alien priory, a cell to Aulnoy abbey in Normandy, was founded here, in the time of Henry II., by Richard de Humet; went, in the time of Richard II., to the Carthusian abbey of St. Anne, near Coventry; and, as part of that abbey's possessions, was given, at the dissolution, to John Bellow and others. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £623. * Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is old but good, and has a tower. There are a Wesleyan chapel, a national school for this and four other parishes, a working men's library, and charities £10.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Great Limber AP/CP Caistor RegD/PLU Lincolnshire AncC |
| Place: | Great Limber |
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