A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
AXHOLME (Isle of), an insulated tract, between the rivers Trent, Idle, and Don, in the extreme NW of Lincolnshire. It comprises the parishes of Althorpe, Belton, Crowle, Epworth, Haxey, Luddington, and Owston. Its length, north-north-eastward, is 17 miles; and its mean breadth is about 4¼ miles. The surface is low, flat, and naturally marshy. A forest seems anciently to have covered it; and remains of trees are found a few feet below the surface. The body of a woman, supposed to have lain from the time of Edward I., was found in a state of entire preservation, in 1747, in a morass near Amcotts. A castle of the Mowbrays, razed in 1174, stood at Haxey, then called Axel; and thence arose the name of Axelholm, now altered into Axholme.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "an insulated tract, between the rivers Trent, Idle, and Don" (ADL Feature Type: "locations") |
| Administrative units: | Lincolnshire AncC |
| Place names: | AXHOLME | AXHOLME ISLE OF | ISLE OF AXHOLME |
| Place: | Axholme |
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