Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HABROUGH, or HABURGH

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.


(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: Habrough CP/AP       Caistor RegD/PLU       Lincolnshire AncC
Place names: HABROUGH     |     HABROUGH OR HABURGH     |     HABURGH
Place: Habrough

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