Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for KEELBY

KEELBY, a village and a parish in Caistor district, Lincoln. The village stands 3 miles SW of Stallingborough r. station, and 7 NE of Caistor; and has a postoffice under Ulceby, and a fair on 10 July. The parish comprises 1,861 acres. Real property, £4, 209. Pop., 842. Houses, 192. The property is subdivided. The manor belongs to George Tomline, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £200. Patron, the Earl of Yarborough. The church is ancient but good; has Norman arches, and a tower; and contains an ancient effigies of Alice South. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Keelby AP/CP       Caistor RegD/PLU       Lincolnshire AncC
Place: Keelby

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