Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for THURLBY

THURLBY, a parish, with a village and two hamlets, in Bourn district, Lincoln; on the Bourn railway, 2½ miles S of Bourn. It has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Bourn. Acres, 5,070. Real property, £7,289. Pop., 833. Houses, 177. The property is much subdivided. Bricks are made. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £553.* Patron, Eton College. The church is Norman, cruciform, and good, with fine tower and spire. There are two Methodist chapels, a national school, and charities £5.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish, with a village and two hamlets"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Thurlby CP/AP       Bourne RegD/PLU       Lincolnshire AncC
Place: Thurlby

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