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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Wilksby like this:
WILKSBY, a parish in Horncastle district, Lincoln; 5 miles SSE of Horncastle r. station. Post town, Boston. Acres, 670. Real property, £770. Pop., 57. Houses, 11. The manor belongs to J. B. Stanhope, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £120. Patron, the Hon. H. Dymoke. The church is good.
Wilksby is now part of EAST LINDSEY District. Click here for graphs and data of how EAST LINDSEY has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Wilksby itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Wilksby, in East Lindsey and Lincolnshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/14074
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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