Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for REPHAM, or Reepham

REPHAM, or Reepham, a village and a parish in the district and county of Lincoln. The village stands adjacent to the Lincoln and Hull railway, 4 miles E N E of Lincoln; and has a station on the railway . The parish comprises 1, 430 acres; and its post town is Lincoln. Real property, £4,028. Pop., 436. Houses, 87. The property is much subdivided. The Burton hounds are kennelled here. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £176.* Patrons, the Mercers' Company, London. The church is good; and there is a parochial school.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Reepham Ch/CP       Lincoln RegD/PLU       Lincolnshire AncC
Place names: REEPHAM     |     REPHAM     |     REPHAM OR REEPHAM
Place: Reepham

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