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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Boothby Pagnell like this:
BOOTHBY-PAGNELL, a parish in Grantham district, Lincoln; adjacent to the Great Northern railway, 1½ mile ESE of Great Ponton station, and 5 SE of Grantham. It has a post office, of the name of Boothby, under Grantham. Acres, 1,794. Real property, £2,431. Pop., 112. Houses, 22. The property is divided among a few. Boothby House is a chief residence. The parish is a meet for the Belvoir hounds. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £376.* Patron, T. Fardell, Esq. The church is good. The erudite Bishop Sanderson was rector here for forty years.
Boothby Pagnell is now part of SOUTH KESTEVEN District. Click here for graphs and data of how SOUTH KESTEVEN has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Boothby Pagnell itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Boothby Pagnell, in South Kesteven and Lincolnshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/11743
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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