Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CRANWELL

CRANWELL, a parish in Sleaford district, Lincoln: near Ermine-street and the Grantham and Boston railway, 4 miles NW of Sleaford. Post town, Sleaford. Acres, 2, 522. Real property, £2, 426. Pop., 233. Houses, 44. The property is divided among a few. The parish is a meet for the Belvoir hounds. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £370. Patron, the Bishop of Lincoln. The church was reported in 1859 to need repair. Charities, £9.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Cranwell CP/AP       Sleaford RegD/PLU       Lincolnshire AncC
Place: Cranwell

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