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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Appleby like this:
APPLEBY, a parish in Glanford-Brigg district, Lincoln; near the Doncaster and Grimsby railway, 7 miles NNW of Brigg. It includes Raventhorpe hamlet: and has a post office under Brigg, and a r. station. Acres, 6,164.-Real property, £6,192. Pop., 579. Houses, 101. The property is divided between two. Appleby House is the seat ofWinn, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £150. Patron, Winn, Esq. The church is a neat structure, with a tower.
Appleby is now part of NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Appleby itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Appleby, in North Lincolnshire and Lincolnshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/11407
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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