Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for MOORTOWN, or MOORTON

MOORTOWN, or MOORTON, a hamlet in South Kelsey parish, Lincoln; on the Lincoln, Market-Rasen, and Hull railway, 3¼ miles SW of Caistor. It has a station on the railway, serving for Caistor, and a Wesleyan chapel. Pop., 77.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Lincolnshire AncC
Place names: MOORTON     |     MOORTOWN     |     MOORTOWN OR MOORTON
Place: Moortown

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