A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
GONERBY (Great), a village and a parish in Grantham district, Lincoln. The village stands near the Great Northern railway, 2 miles NNW of Grantham; is large and well built; and has a post office under Grantham. The parish comprises 2, 800 acres. Real property, £6, 243. Pop., 1, 145. Houses, 247. The property is subdivided. The manor belongs to Earl Brownlow. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £300.* Patron, the Vicar of Grantham. The church is interesting; has an embattled tower, with crocketted spire; and contains an altar-tomb of 1500. There are chapels for Independents, Wesleyans, and Primitive Methodists, a national school in the Tudor style, and charities £22.
(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: | Great Gonerby AP/CP Grantham RegD/PLU Lincolnshire AncC |
| Place names: | GONERBY | GONERBY GREAT | GREAT GONERBY |
| Place: | Great Gonerby |
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