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MARSH-CHAPEL, a village and a parish in Louth district, Lincoln. The village stands 1¼ mile E of the Louth navigation, 2½ from the coast, 4 ENE ofLudborough r. station, and 10 NNE of Louth; and has a post office under Grimsby. The parish extends to the coast; comprises 3,131 acres of land, and 1,160 of water; and includes 304 acres of salt marsh, reclaimed and embanked in 1858. Real property, £6,358. Pop., 671. Houses, 153. The property is much subdivided. The manor belongs to J. B. Stanhope andAllex, Esqs. The land is fertile reclaimed marsh. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £222. Patron, the Rev. A. Floyer. The church is late perpendicular English; consists of nave, aisles, chancel, and chantry-chapel, with pinnacled tower; was restored in the chancel in 1848, in the nave in 1864; and contains a fine oak screen, a handsome octagonal font, and a monument of 1617 to W. Harpham. There are chapels for Wesleyaus, Primitive Methodists, and United Free Methodists, a national school, and charities £40.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Marsh Chapel Ch/CP Lincolnshire AncC |
| Place: | Marsh Chapel |
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