Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BAUMBER, or Bamburgh

BAUMBER, or Bamburgh, a parish in Horncastle district Lincoln; on the Wolds, 4 miles NW by N of Horncastle r. station. It has a post office, of the name. of Banmber, under Horncastle. Acres, 3,200. Real property, £4,052. Pop., 393. Houses, 85. Sturton Hall is the seat of the Liveseys. The living is a vicarage, annexed to Sturton-Magna. The church is good; and there is a Wesleyan chapel.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Baumber CP/AP       Horncastle RegD/PLU       Lincolnshire AncC
Place names: BAMBURGH     |     BAUMBER     |     BAUMBER OR BAMBURGH
Place: Baumber

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