Descriptive gazetteer entries

We have no further entries in our collection of 19th century descriptive gazetteers about Wigtoft, but we do have this information about localities within the associated parish or parishes. You may be able to find further references to Wigtoft in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Burtoft	hamlet	Bartholomew
BURTOFT	a hamlet	Imperial
Hofflet Stow	hamlet	Bartholomew
HOFFLET-STOW	a hamlet	Imperial

Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Wigtoft like this:

WIGTOFT, a parish, with two hamlets, in Boston district, Lincoln; 2 miles WNW of Algarkirk r. station, and 6½ SW of Boston. Post town, Spalding. Acres, 3,300. Real property, £7,812. Pop., 732. Houses, 129. The property is subdivided. The living is a vicarage, united with Quadring, in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £412.* Patron, the Bishop of L. The church includes Norman, early English, and later English portions, and is good. There are two Methodist chapels, an endowed school with £57 a ...

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year, and several charities.

This is the only descriptive gazetter entry we have found, but you may be able to find further references to Wigtoft by doing a full-text search here.

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Travel writing

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Algar Kirk	0	2
Simon Weir	0	1
Swineshead	0	2
Bicker	0	2
Kirton	1	4
Donington	0	2
The Friths	0	1
Frampton	0	2
Quadring	0	2
Royalty Farm	0	2
Cressy Hall	0	1
Fosdyke	0	5
Surfleet	0	2
Great Brand End Plot	0	1
Gosberton	0	2
Gibbet Hills	0	2
Wyberton	0	2
Mown Rakes	0	3