Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for INGOLDSBY

INGOLDSBY, a village and a parish in Grantham district, Lincoln. The village stands 4½ miles NNE of Corby r. station, and 8 SE of Grantham; and has a postoffice under Grantham. The parish contains also the hamlet of Scotland. Acres, 2, 237. Real property, £3, 663. Pop., 427. Houses, 81. The manor and most of the land belong to Lord Aveland. There is an ancient circular camp, about 500 feet in diameter, with several tumuli called the Round Hills. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £600. * Patron, Christ's College, Cambridge. The church is Norman and later English, in good condition; and has a tower. The Rectory house was built in 1847, and is a handsome edifice, in the Gothic style.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Ingoldsby AP/CP       Grantham RegD/PLU       Lincolnshire AncC
Place: Ingoldsby

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