Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WESTON

WESTON, a parish, with a village and a r. station, in Spalding district, Lincoln; on the Spalding and Lynn railway, 3 miles NE of Spalding. Post town, Spalding. Acres, 5,386. Real property, £12,741. Pop., 750. Houses, 161. There are three manors; and that of Spalding-cum-Membris belongs to M. Johnson, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £290. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is of the 14th century and cruciform, and has a later English tower. There are Wesleyan chapels, a national school, and charities £40.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish, with a village and a r station"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Weston Parish       Spalding Poor Law Union/Registration District       Lincolnshire Ancient County
Place: Weston

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