Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for EASTOFT

EASTOFT, a chapelry on the mutual border of Lincoln and W. R. Yorkshire; and on the river Don, 4 miles NE of Crowle r. station. It was constituted in 1855; and it consists of the two townships of Eastoft, in the parishes of Crowle and Adlingfleet. Post town, Luddington, under Howden. Rated property, £2, 924. Pop., 624. Houses, 135. The property is subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £150. Patron, Lady Strickland. The church is a neat structure of 1855. There are chapels for Primitive Methodists and New Connexion Methodists.


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

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Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Lincolnshire AncC       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Eastoft

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