Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for FLIXBOROUGH

FLIXBOROUGH, a township and a parish in Glanford-Brigg district, Lincoln. The township lies adjacent to the river Trent, near the Keadby terminus of the Thorne and Keadby railway, 10 miles NW of Glanford-Brigg. Acres, 2, 650. Real property, £1, 711. Pop., 214. Houses, 43. The parish includes also a small part of Crosby township; and its post town is Barton, under Brigg. Rated property, £2, 261. Pop., 236. Houses, 46. The property is all in one estate. The living is a rectory, united with the vicarage of Barton-upon-Stather, in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, 752.* Patron, Sir R. Sheffield, Bart. The church is good. Chief Justice Anderson was a native.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Flixborough AP/CP       Glanford Brigg RegD/PLU       Lincolnshire AncC
Place: Flixborough

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