Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HOLTON-LE-CLAY

HOLTON-LE-CLAY, a village and a parish in Louth district, Lincoln. The village stands near the East Lincoln railway, 4¾ miles S by E of Great Grimsby; and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Grimsby. The parish includes also Tetney-Haven on the Louth navigation. Acres, 1, 430. Real property, £2, 385. Pop., 297. Houses, 59. The manor belongs to the Duchy of Lancaster, and is held by Sir M. J. Cholmeley, Bart. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £92. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church was repaired and partly rebuilt in 1850; and it has a Saxon chancel arch, and a tower. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Holton le Clay CP/AP       Louth RegD/PLU       Lincolnshire AncC
Place: Holton le Clay

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