Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for FOLKSWORTH

FOLKSWORTH, a parish in the district of Peterborough and county of Huntingdon; adjacent to Billing brook, at the boundary with Northamptonshire, 1½ mile NW of Stilton, and 4½ NW by W of Holme r. station. Post town, Stilton, under Peterborough. Acres, 867. Real property, £1, 380. Pop., 207. Houses, 47. The property is much subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £135.* Patron, the Rev. H. Freeman. The church is very good.


(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: Folksworth CP/AP       Huntingdonshire AncC
Place: Folksworth

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