Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WHAPLODE-DROVE

WHAPLODE-DROVE, a chapelry, with a village, in Whaplode parish, Lincoln; 1 mile NE of Crowland r. station. It has a post-office under Peterborough. Acres, 2,135. Real property, £5,439. Pop., 8844. Houses, 152. The manor belongs to the Duke of Somerset. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £400.* Patrons, Trustees. The church is modern. There is a national school.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Whaplode AP/CP       Lincolnshire AncC
Place: Whaplode Drove

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