A vision of Britain through time
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
PEAKIRK, a parish, with a village, in Peterborough district, Northampton; on the Great Northern railway, adjacent to the river Welland at the boundary with Lincolnshire, 3¼ miles S E of Market-Deeping. It has a station on the railway, and a postal letter-box under Market-Deeping. Acres, 630. Real property, £1, 864. Pop., 246. Houses, 56. The property is much subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £335.* Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Peterborough. The church is partly Norman, partly of laterdates; and has a bell-gable campanile. A chapel of the13th century, in the geometric style, stood in the village; belonged to Crowland abbey; is now a dwelling-house; and has a well-designed E window.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish, with a village" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Peakirk AP/CP Peterborough RegD/PLU Northamptonshire AncC |
| Place: | Peakirk |
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