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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Spittlegate like this:
SPITTLEGATE, Houghton, and Walton, a township in Grantham parish, Lincoln; adjacent to Grantham. Real property, £11,520. Pop. in 1851, 3,084; in 1861, 3,803. Houses, 798. The Grantham workhouse and extensive foundries are here. See Grantham.
Spittlegate is now part of SOUTH KESTEVEN District. Click here for graphs and data of how SOUTH KESTEVEN has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Spittlegate itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Spittlegate, in South Kesteven and Lincolnshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/13653
Date accessed: 11th November 2025
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