Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Stowe by Gainsborough

Stowe by Gainsborough, par., township, and vil. (ry. sta. Stow Park), Lincolnshire - par. (called also Stow in Lindsey), 4620 ac., pop. 1007; township (Normanby and Stowe), pop. 361; vil., in Normanby and Stowe township, 7 miles SE. of Gainsborough; was the seat of a bishopric in Saxon times; in vicinity of vil. is Stowe Park, seat, with ruins of ancient castle.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

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Feature Description: "parish, township, and village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Lincolnshire AncC
Place: Stow

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