Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BONBY, or Bondeby

BONBY, or Bondeby, a parish in Glanford-Brigg district, Lincoln; on the river Ancholme, 4½ miles NNW of Barnetby r. station, and 6 N of Brigg. Post Town, Worlaby, under Brigg. Acres, 2,410. Real property, £3,742. Pop., 471. Houses, 101. The property is divided among a few. An alien priory was founded here in the time of King John; and given to the Chartreux house at Beauval in Notts, in the time of Henry IV. The living is a vicarage in the dio. of Lincoln. Value, £233.* Patron, the Earl of Yarborough. The church is old but good. There are two Methodist chapels.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Bonby AP/CP       Glanford Brigg RegD/PLU       Lincolnshire AncC
Place names: BONBY     |     BONBY OR BONDEBY     |     BONDEBY
Place: Bonby

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