Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BURTON-PEDWARDINE

BURTON-PEDWARDINE, a parish in Sleaford district, Lincoln; 2 miles SW of Heckington r. station, and 4½ SE of Sleaford. Post Town, Heckington, under Sleaford. Acres, 2,580. Real property, £2,427. Pop., 135. Houses, 26. The property is divided among a few. The manor was given by the Conqueror to Alan de Craon; and passed to the Pedwardines. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £339.* Patron, H. Handley, Esq. The church is partly ancient, partly of the year 1802. There is a national school of 1860.


(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: Burton Penwardine CP/AP       Sleaford RegD/PLU       Lincolnshire AncC
Place: Burton Penwardine

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