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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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RASEN (Middle), a parish in Caistor district, Lincoln; on the river Rasen, 1½ mile W of Market-Rasen r.station. It contains a village of its own name; and consists of two consolidated parishes, called Rasen-Drax and Rasen Tupholme. Post-town, Market-Rasen. Acres, 3, 470. Real property, £6, 236. Pop. in 1851, 948; in 1861, 1,063. Houses, 251. R.-Drax is fabled to have got its name from the slaying of a dragon; and R.-Tupholme had anciently a small abbey. The living is adouble vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £313. Patron, alternately the Hon.H. Cust and the Bishop of Lincoln. The church is Norman, and was restored in 1861. There are three Methodist chapels, a small free school, and charities £20.
(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: | Middle Rasen AP/CP Caistor RegD/PLU Lincolnshire AncC |
| Place names: | MIDDLE RASEN | RASEN | RASEN MIDDLE |
| Place: | Middle Rasen |
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