Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CONISHOLME

CONISHOLME, a parish in Louth district, Lincoln; near the coast, 5¾ miles ESE of Ludborough r. station, and 7½ NE of Louth. Post town, Grainthorpe, under Grimsby. Acres, 1, 195. Real property, £2, 218. Pop., 167. Houses, 31. The property is much subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £250. Patron, the Earl of Ripon. The church is mainly early English; was once cruciform, without aisles; is so altered that the central tower now forms the chancel; contains a brass of 1550; and is in tolerable condition. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Free Methodists.


(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: Conisholme AP/CP       Louth RegD/PLU       Lincolnshire AncC
Place: Conisholme

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