Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SHANGTON

SHANGTON, a parish in Market-Harborough district, Leicester; 2¾ miles E N E of Kibworth r. station. Post-town, Leicester. Acres, 1, 590. Real property, £1, 969. Pop., 82. Houses, 16. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough Value, £360.* Patron, Sir C E. Isham, Bart. The church was restored in 1851, and the chancel rebuilt in 1863.


(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: Shangton AP/CP       Market Harborough RegD/PLU       Leicestershire AncC
Place: Shangton

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