Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

WIGBOROUGH (Little), a parish in Lexden district, Essex: 1 mile SE of Great Wigborough. Post town, Peldon, under Colchester. Acres, 1,168. Real property, £881. Pop., 92. Houses, 22. The manor belongs to the Charterhouse, London. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £252. Patron, the Charterhouse. The church is good.

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Travel writing

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