Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SPITTAL, or S.-in-the-Street

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))

Linked entities:
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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