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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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BLYTON, a village and a parish in Gainsborough district, Lincoln. The village stands near the Manchester and Lincolnshire railway, 4½ miles NE of Gainsborough; and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Gainsborough. The parish includes also the hamlet of Wharton.-Acres, 2,830. Real property, £6,719. Pop., 746. Houses, 171. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £399.* Patron, the Earl of Scarborough. The church is good; and there are two Methodist chapels, and a school with £20 of endowed income.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Blyton CP Blyton Cum Wharton CP/AP Gainsborough RegD/PLU Lincolnshire AncC |
| Place: | Blyton |
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