Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HOLTON-LE-MOOR

HOLTON-LE-MOOR, a village and a chapelry in Caistor parish, Lincoln. The village stands 1 mile E of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire railway, and 3 SW by S of Caistor; and has a station on the railway.—The chapelry comprises 1, 750 acres. Post town, Caistor. Real property, £1, 734. Pop., 180. Houses, 37. Nearly all the land, with a neat mansion on it, belongs to T. J. Dixon, Esq. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Caistor, in the diocese of Lincoln. The church is a small Gothic edifice, with a turret.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Caistor AP/Tn/CP       Holton le Moor Ch/CP       Lincolnshire AncC
Place: Holton le Moor

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