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WILLOUGHTON, a parish, with a village, in Gainsborough district, Lincoln; 2¾ miles SE of Northorpe r. station, and 3¾ S by W of Kirton-Lindsey. Post town, Kirton-Lindsey. Acres, 2,460. Real property, £4,156. Pop., 620. Houses, 140. The manor belongs to the Earl of Scarborough. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £200. Patron, alternately King's College, Cambridge, and the Earl of Scarborough. The church is good; and there are two Methodist chapels, and a national school.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish, with a village" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Willoughton Parish Gainsborough Poor Law Union/Registration District Lincolnshire Ancient County |
| Place: | Willoughton |
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