Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WALESBY

WALESBY, a parish, with a village, in Caistor district, Lincoln; 2¾ miles NE of Market-Rasen r. station. Post town, Market-Rasen. Acres, 2,580. Real property, £4,278. Pop., 351. Houses, 64. The manor belongs to W. Angerstein, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £570.* Patron, W. Angerstein, Esq. There is a building used as a Wesleyan chapel and as a national school.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Walesby AP/CP       Caistor RegD/PLU       Lincolnshire AncC
Place: Walesby

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