Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Wistow

Wistow, par. and township, Leicestershire, on Union Canal, 7 miles SE. of Leicester - par., 2100 ac., pop. 234; township, pop. 49; contains Wistow Hall, seat.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish and township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Wistow Tn/AP/CP       Leicestershire AncC
Place: Wistow

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