Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for LAWRESS

LAWRESS, a wapentake in the parts of Lindsey, Lincoln; bounded by the wapentakes of Aslacoe, Walshcroft, Wraggoe, Boothby-Graffo, and Langoe, the liberty of Lincoln, and the wapentake of Well; and containing Aisthorpe parish, twenty-seven other parishes, and part of another. Acres, 46, 413. Pop. in 1851, 8, 035; in 1861, 7, 728. Houses, 1, 613.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a wapentake"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 3rd order divisions")
Administrative units: Lincolnshire AncC
Place: Lawres

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