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.
SIBSEY, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Boston district, Lincoln. The village stands adjacent to the East Lincoln railway, 5 miles NNE of Boston and has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Boston. The parish contains also Frithbank hamlet, and comprises 5,460 acres. Real property, 11,920. Pop. in 1851, 1,390; in 1861, 1,297. Houses, 277. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £315.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church was restored, and partly rebuilt, in 1856. There are a Wesleyan chape1, an endowed school with £97 a year, and charities £42.—The sub-district contains six parishes, an extra-parochial tract, and five fen allotments. Pop., 3,259. Houses, 597.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village, a parish, and a sub-district" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Sibsey AP/CP Sibsey SubD Boston RegD/PLU Lincolnshire AncC |
| Place: | Sibsey |
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