Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for EAGLE

EAGLE, a parish in the district and county of Lincoln; adjacent to the boundary with Notts, 3½ miles WNW of Thorpe r. station, and 7½ SW by W of Lincoln. It contains the hamlet of Eagle-Barnsdale; and its post town is Swinderby, under Newark. Acres, with Eagle-Hall, 2, 450. Real property, £2, 144. Pop., 533. Houses, 123. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £100. Patron, Sir W. A. Ingilby. The church is tolerable; and there are two Wesleyan chapels, and charities £5.


(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: Eagle CP/AP       Lincolnshire AncC
Place: Eagle

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