Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BILLINGBOROUGH

BILLINGBOROUGH, a parish in Bourn district, Lincoln; 3 miles E of Folkingham, and 7 S of Heckington r. station. It has a post office‡ under Folkingham. Acres, 2,020. Real property, £6,70 4. Pop., 1,149. Houses, 261. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £295.* Patron, Earl Fortescue. The church is decorated English; and has a fine tower and spire. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels, an endowed school with £32 a year, and charities £41.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Billingborough AP/CP       Bourne RegD/PLU       Lincolnshire AncC
Place: Billingborough

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