Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for STEEPING (Little)

STEEPING (Little), a parish, with a r. station, in Spilsby district, Lincoln; on the East Lincoln railway, 3½ miles SE of Spilsby. Post town, Spilsby. Acres, 1,490. Real property, £1,997. Pop., 326. Houses, 69. The manor belongs to W. Pinder, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £181.* Patron, Lord Willoughby D'Eresby. The church is later English. There are a Wesleyan chapel and a free school.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish, with a r station"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Little Steeping CP/AP       Spilsby RegD/PLU       Lincolnshire AncC
Place names: LITTLE STEEPING     |     STEEPING     |     STEEPING LITTLE
Place: Little Steeping

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