In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Stixwould like this:
STIXWOULD, a parish in Horncastle district, Lincoln; on the river Witham and the Great Northern railway, 5¾ miles NNW of Tattershall. It has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Horncastle. Acres, 2,250. Real property, £3,023. Pop., 269-Houses, 48. The property is divided among a few. ...
A Cistertian nunnery was founded here, in the time of Stephen, by the Earl of Chester; and went, at the dissolution, to R. Dighton. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £105* Patron,Turner, Esq. The church was rebuilt in 1831. There is a national school.
Stixwould through time
Stixwould is now part of East Lindsey district. Click here for graphs and data of how East Lindsey has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Stixwould itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Stixwould, in East Lindsey and Lincolnshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/13741
Date accessed: 05th November 2024
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