Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SCARTHO

SCARTHO, a parish, with a village, in Caistor district, Lincoln; on the East Lincoln railway, 2 miles Sby W of Great Grimsby. Post-town, Grimsby. Acres, 1, 390. Real property, £1, 913. Pop., 188. Houses, 40. The manor belongs to the Earl of Yarborough. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £231.* Patron, Jesus College, Oxford. The church has an early English nave, and a tower originally Saxon; and was recently repaired. There is a Wesleyan chapel.


(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: Scartho AP/CP       Caistor RegD/PLU       Lincolnshire AncC
Place: Scartho

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