Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HAUGHAM

HAUGHAM, a parish in Louth district, Lincoln; 3 miles Sw of Legbourne r. station, and 4 S of Louth. Post town, Louth. Acres, 1, 907. Real property, £1, 848. Pop., 115. Houses, 23. The property is all in one estate, and belongs to Henry Chaplin, Esq. An alien priory, a cell to the Benedictine abbey of St. Mary San Chester; was transferred, in the time of Richard II., to the Carthusian priory of St. Ann, near Coventry; and was given, at the dissolution, to J. Bellow and J. Broxholme. A rivulet, called Skirbeck, issues from a hill in this parish; has the capacity of a torrent for several weeks after heavy rain; and ceases to flow in dry weather. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £176.* Patron, H. Chaplin, Esq. The church was rebuilt in 1840, at a cost of £2, 500; is in the pointed style; and consists of nave and chancel, with tower and crocketted spire. A neat parsonage was erected in 1861.


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

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

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