Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Willoughby

Willoughby.-- par. and vil. with ry. sta., Lincolnshire - par., 4280 ac., pop. 617; vil., 2 miles SE. of Alford; P.O.; gives the title of Baron to Lord Willoughby D'Eresby, and was the birthplace of Captain John Smith (1579-1631), founder of Virginia.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish and village with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Willoughby and Sloothby AP/CP       Lincolnshire AncC
Place: Willoughby

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