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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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STIXWOULD, a parish in Horncastle district, Lincoln; on the river Witham and the Great Northern railway, 5¾ miles NNW of Tattershall. It has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Horncastle. Acres, 2,250. Real property, £3,023. Pop., 269-Houses, 48. The property is divided among a few. A Cistertian nunnery was founded here, in the time of Stephen, by the Earl of Chester; and went, at the dissolution, to R. Dighton. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £105* Patron,Turner, Esq. The church was rebuilt in 1831. There is a national school.
(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: | Stixwould AP/CP Horncastle RegD/PLU Lincolnshire AncC |
| Place: | Stixwould |
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