Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WORLABY

WORLABY, a parish, with a village, in Glanford-Brigg district, Lincoln; 4 miles NW by N of Barnetby r. station, and 5 NNE of Glanford-Brigg. It has a post-office under Brigg. Acres, 3,210. Real property, £5,158. Pop., 526. Houses, 110. The property is subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £360.* Patron, F. W. Webb, Esq. The church is good; and there are a Wesleyan chapel, an alms-house-hospital with £21 a year, and other charities £5.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Worlaby AP/CP       Glanford Brigg RegD/PLU       Lincolnshire AncC
Place: Worlaby

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