Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BURTON (West)

BURTON (West), a parish in the district of Gainsborough and county of Nottingham; on the river Trent, 2 miles E of Sturton r. station, and 3½ SSW of Gainsborough. Post Town, Sturton, under Retford. Acres, 710. Real property, £2,089. Pop., 67. Houses, 7. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £65. Patron, John Barrow, Esq. The church is old.


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

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Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: West Burton CP/AP       Nottinghamshire AncC
Place names: BURTON     |     BURTON WEST     |     WEST BURTON
Place: West Burton

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