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.
BARLINGS, a parish in the district and county of Lincoln; 2½ miles SE of Reepham r. station, and 7 ENE its Post Town is Nettleham under Lincoln. Acres, 2,630. Real property, £3,117. Pop., 475. Houses, 96. The property is subdivided. A Premonstratensian abbey was founded, in 1154, at Barling-Grange; and afterwards refounded at Oxeney; and was given, at the dissolution, to Charles, Duke of Suffolk. The last abbot of it, Dr. Mackerel, was executed at Tyburn, in 1537, for heading the Lincoln insurrection against the Crown. Only a few mutilated pillars of the edifice now remain. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value,£55. Patrons, T. T. Drake andTurner, Esqs. The church is tolerable.
(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: | Barlings CP/AP Lincolnshire AncC |
| Place: | Barlings |
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