Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Botolphbridge like this:

BOTOLPH-BRIDGE, or Bottle-Bridge, a parish in the district of Peterborough and county of Huntingdon; near the river Nen and the Great Northern railway, 2 miles SW of Peterborough. Post Town, Peterborough. The statistics are returned with Orton-Longville. The manor belonged to the Draytons, the Lovells, and the Shirleys. The living is a rectory, annexed to the rectory of OrtonLongville, in the diocese of Ely. The church is in ruins.

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Travel writing

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Dogsthorpe 0 2
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