Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HEAPHAM

HEAPHAM, a parish in Gainsborough district, Lincoln; at one of the sources of the river Brant, 3 miles E by N of Lea r. station, and 4½ ESE of Gainsborough. Post town, Gainsborough. Acres, 1, 250. Real property, £1, 483. Pop., 129. Houses, 25. The property is subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £245.* Patron, W.Amcotts, Esq. The church was recently in disrepair.


(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: Heapham CP/AP       Gainsborough RegD/PLU       Lincolnshire AncC
Place: Heapham

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