In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Habrough like this:
HABROUGH, or HABURGH, a village and a parish in Caistor district, Lincoln. The village occupies the site of a Roman settlement, adjacent to the Ulceby and Grimsby railway, 8 miles WNW of Great Grimsby; is irregularly built; and has a station on the railway. The parish extends to the Humber; and comprises 1, 570 acres of land, and 1, 180 of water. ...
Post town, Ulceby. Real property, £3, 134. Pop., 364. Houses, 84. The manor belongs to the Earl of Yarborough. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Killingholme, in the diocese of Lincoln. The church is a neat structure with a tower. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists.
Habrough through time
Habrough is now part of North East Lincolnshire district. Click here for graphs and data of how North East Lincolnshire has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Habrough itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Habrough in North East Lincolnshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/12482
Date accessed: 24th April 2024
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