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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Flixborough like this:
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.
Flixborough 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 Flixborough itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Flixborough, in North Lincolnshire and Lincolnshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/12271
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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