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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
BILLINGHAY, a parish in Sleaford and Boston districts, and a subdistrict in Sleaford district, Lincoln. The parish lies on Billinghay Skirt, 3½ miles WSW of Tattershall r. station, and 8½ NE of Sleaford. It includes the township of Dogdyke, and the hamlet of Walcott; and has a post office‡ under Sleaford. Acres, 7,630. Real property, £17,794. Pop., 2,247. Houses, 477. The property is much subdivided. Billinghay Skirt is a cut 5 miles long, from the Sleaford canal to the river Witham. The living is a vicarage, united with the p. curacy of Walcott, in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £280.* Patron, Earl Fitzwilliam. The church has Norman arches, and is good. There are chapels for Independents, Baptists, Wesleyans, and Primitive Methodists.-The subdistrict comprises five parishes, parts of two other parishes, and an extra-parochial tract. Acres, returned with Sleaford subdistrict. Pop., 5,423. Houses, 1,100.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Billinghay AP/CP Sleaford RegD/PLU Lincolnshire AncC |
| Place: | Billinghay |
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