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BELTON, a parish in Grantham district, Lincoln; on the river Witham, adjacent to the Great Northern and the Grantham and Boston railways, 2 miles NNE of Grantham. It contains a village of its own name, and has a post office under Grantham. Acres, 1,709. Real property, £2,544. Pop., 142. Houses, 33. The property belongs all to Earl Brownlow, and gives him the title of Baron. Belton Hall, the Earl's seat, stands in a park of 5 miles in circuit; and is an edifice, in the shape of the letter H, erected in 1689 after designs by Wren, and considerably modernized by Wyatt. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £430.* Patron, Earl Brownlow. The church is ancient and good; and contains monuments of the Custs and the Brownlows, and a rich eight-sided font. An ornamental cross is in the village; and an ornamental tower on a height in the park. There is an endowed school.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Belton CP/AP Grantham RegD/PLU Lincolnshire AncC |
| Place: | Belton |
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