Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for GLENTWORTH

GLENTWORTH, a parish in Gainsborough district, Lincoln; on the Wolds, 7 miles NE by N of Marton r. station, and 8 ESE of Gainsborough. Post town, Fillingham, under Lincoln. Acres, 3, 043. Real property, £3, 554. Pop., 340. Houses, 58. The property belongs to the Earl of Scarborough. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £307.* Patron, the Earl of Scarborough. The church is good; and contains a monument of Lord-Chief-Justice Wray, of the time of Elizabeth. There are two alms-houses.


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

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