Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BLEASBY

BLEASBY, a parish, with a village and a r. station, in Southwell district, Notts; on the river Trent and on the Midland railway, 3 miles SSE of Southwell. It includes the hamlets of Gibsmere, Notown, and Goverton; and its Post Town is Thurgarton, under Southwell. -Acres, 1,550. Real property, £2,803. Pop., 332. Houses, 72. The property is subdivided. Bleasby Hall is the seat of the Kelhams. The parish is a meet for the Rufford hounds. The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of Morton, in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £188.* Patron, Southwell College Church. The church is ancient and very good.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish, with a village and a r station"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Bleasby CP/AP       Southwell RegD/PLU       Nottinghamshire AncC
Place: Bleasby

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