Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for GOULCEBY, or Goulsby

GOULCEBY, or Goulsby, a parish in Horncastle district, Lincoln; on the Wolds, near the river Bain, 6½ miles N of Horncastle town and r. station. Post town, Scamblesby, under Horncastle. Acres, 1, 440. Real property, £1, 890. Pop., 3 44. Houses, 79. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £136. Patron, the Rev. J. M. Lister. The church is modern; and there are chapels for Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists, and Free Methodists, and a public school.


(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: Goulceby AP/CP       Horncastle RegD/PLU       Lincolnshire AncC
Place names: GOULCEBY     |     GOULCEBY OR GOULSBY     |     GOULSBY
Place: Goulceby

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