A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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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.
GRAINTHORPE, a village and a parish in Louth district, Lincoln. The village stands near the coast, 6 miles E of Ludborough r. station, and 8 NE by N of Louth; and has a post office under Grimsby. The parish includes also the hamlets of Ludney and Wragholme. Acres, 4, 955; of which 675 are water. Real property, £9, 234. Pop. in 1851, 655; in 1861, 738. Houses, 161. The property is much subdivided. The increase of pop. arose from the sale of small freehold lots of land, for the erection of houses. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Valne, £180.* Patron, Magdalene College, Cambridge. The church is later English and good; consists of nave, chancel, and aisles; and has a western tower, with crocketted pinnacles. There are chapels for Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists, and Free Methodists, a library, an endowed school with £20, and other charities with £24.
(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: | Grainthorpe AP/CP Louth RegD/PLU Lincolnshire AncC |
| Place: | Grainthorpe |
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