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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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COVENHAM-ST. BARTHOLOMEW, a parish in Louth district, Lincoln; adjacent to the Boston and Grimsby railway and to the Louth navigation, 1½ mile ESE of Ludborough r. station, and 5 NNE of Louth. It has a post office, of the name of Covenham, under Louth. Acres, 1, 340. Real property, £2, 441. Pop., 298. Houses, 66. A small Benedictine priory was founded here in 1082, by Bishop Carileph. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £287. Patrons, the Rev.D. Holland and the heirs of S. Harrold, Esq. The church is early English; was the minster of the Benedictine priory, -cruciform, without aisles, but with a central tower; has lost the north transept; and contains a curiously sculptured octagonal font. There are three Methodist chapels, -Wesleyan, Primitive, and Free. Charities, £16.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Covenham St Bartholomew CP/AP Louth RegD/PLU Lincolnshire AncC |
| Place: | Covenham St Bartholomew |
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