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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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CONINGSBY, a parish in Horncastle district, Lincoln; on the rivers Bain and Witham, and the Horncastle canal, adjacent to the Boston and Lincoln and the Horncastle railways, near Tattershall and Dogdyke r. stations, 8 miles SSW of Horncastle. It includes allotments in the Wildmore fen and twenty detached pieces of old enclosure; and has a post office‡ under Boston. Acres, inclusive of the extra-parochial tracts of Haven-Bank and Langrick-Ferry, 5, 560. Real property, £9, 132. Pop., 1, 938. Houses, 437. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £644.* Patron, Lord Aveland. The church is good; and there are chapels for Baptists, Wesleyan Methodists, and Primitive Methodists. Charities, £82. Eusden, the poet-laureate, and Dyer, the author of the " Fleece, " were rectors.
(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: | Coningsby AP/CP Horncastle RegD/PLU Lincolnshire AncC |
| Place: | Coningsby |
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