Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SULBY

SULBY, an extra-parochial tract in the district of Market-Harborough and county of Northampton; 6 miles SW of Market-Harborough. Acres, 700. Real property, £2,940. Pop., 87. Houses, 14. S. Hall is the seat of the Hon. F. W.Villiers. A Premonstratensian abbey was founded here in 1155: and was given, at the dissolution, to the Hattons.


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

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Feature Description: "an extra-parochial tract"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Northamptonshire AncC
Place: Sulby

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