Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for AMCOTTS

AMCOTTS, a township-chapelry in Althorpe parish Lincoln; on the river Trent, 5 miles E by N of Crowle. Post Town, Althorpe under Bawtry. Pop., 374. Houses 75. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; and was formerly annexed to the rectory of Althorpe, but was recently made a separate benefice. Value, £260. Patron, the Crown. The church is new. A former church, dedicated to St. Thomas a. Becket, fell down in 1849. There is a Wesleyan chapel


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township-chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Althorpe CP/AP       Amcotts CP/Ch       Lincolnshire AncC
Place: Amcotts

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