Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SOMERBY

SOMERBY, a parish, with a village, in Grantham district, Lincoln; 3½ miles ESE of Grantham r. station. It has a post-office under Grantham. Acres, 2,990. Real property, £3,889. Pop., 234. Houses, 51. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £645.* Patron, Lord Willoughby D'Eresby. The church is old.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Somerby CP/AP       Grantham RegD/PLU       Lincolnshire AncC
Place: Old Somerby

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