Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for MANTHORPE

MANTHORPE, a hamlet in Witham on-the-Hill parish, Lincoln; 3 miles SW by S of Bourn. Real property, £1,326. Pop., 107. Houses, 22. Bow thorpe Park here is now a farm; and has a very old oak tree, 45 feet in girth, with a hollow in the trunk capable of holding 15 persons. There are strong mineral springs.


(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: Witham on the Hill CP/AP       Lincolnshire AncC
Place: Manthorpe

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