Descriptive gazetteer entries

We have no further entries in our collection of 19th century descriptive gazetteers about Raithby, but we do have this information about localities within the associated parish or parishes. You may be able to find further references to Raithby in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place Type of entry Source
MALTBY a hamlet Imperial

Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Raithby like this:

RAITHBY-CUM-MALTBY, a parish in Louth district, Lincoln; 2½ miles S W of Louth r. station. Post-town, Louth. Acres, 1, 930. Real property, £2, 350. Pop., 145. Houses, 28. The manor and most of the land belong to H. Chaplin, Esq. The living is a rectory, united with the vicarage of Hallington, in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £570.* Patron, H. Chaplin, Esq. The church was built in 1839, at a cost of £4,000; is in the florid Gothic style; and consists of nave, N aisle, and chancel, with pin...


nacled tower.

This is the only descriptive gazetter entry we have found, but you may be able to find further references to Raithby by doing a full-text search here.


Travel writing

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