Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Swineshead

Swineshead, town and par. with ry. sta., Lincolnshire, 6 miles SW. of Boston by rail, 5781 ac., pop. 1622; P.O., T.O. Swineshead is a place of great antiquity, and has an endowed free school.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "town and parish with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "cities")
Administrative units: Swineshead CP/AP       Lincolnshire AncC
Place: Swineshead

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