Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BRACEBRIDGE

BRACEBRIDGE, a parish in the district and county of Lincoln; on the river Witham, 2 miles S of Lincoln r. station. Post Town, Lincoln. Acres, 1,482. Real property, £6,373. Pop., 836. Houses, 87. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £203.* Patron, Mrs. Bromhead. The county lunatic asylum is here; and a new chapel for it was built in 1869.


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

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Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Bracebridge CP/AP       Lincolnshire AncC
Place: Bracebridge

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