Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for MALTBY-LE-MARSH

MALTBY-LE-MARSH, a parish, with a village, in Louth district, Lincoln; 5 miles NNE of Alford r. station. Post town, Alford-Acres, 1,379. Real property, £3,290Pop. in 1851,293; in 1861,332. Houses, 65. The increase of pop. arose from the sale of land for building purposes. The manor belongs to Capt. Moore. The living is as rectory in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £300 * Patron, 0e Rev. J. Allot. The church is ancient; consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with a tower; and contains an effigies, supposed to be of one of the Earls killed in a duel at Mablethorpe. There are chapels for Baptists and Wesleyans, and an endowed school with £80 a year.


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

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Feature Description: "a parish, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Maltby le Marsh AP/CP       Louth RegD/PLU       Lincolnshire AncC
Place: Maltby le Marsh

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