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SPITTAL, or S.-in-the-Street, a hamlet in Glentham, Hemswell, and Bishop-Norton parishes, Lincoln; on Ermine-street, 6 miles SSE of Kirton-in-Lindsey. It had anciently a chapel or hospital, founded before 1330; and has now a cattle-fair on 25 Nov., and an inn.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "a hamlet" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
Administrative units: | Lincolnshire AncC |
Place names: | S. IN THE STREET | SPITTAL | SPITTAL OR S. IN THE STREET |
Place: | Spittal |
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