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  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BARROW-UPON-SOAR	Leicestershire	Wolds, Seagrave, Thrussington, Ratcliffe-on-the-Wreak, Cossington, and Sileby. Acres, 13,521. Pop., 5,144. Houses, 1,169. The district comprehends also the subdistrict of Quorndon, containing the parish of Swithland, the extra-parochial tract of Ulverscroft, and parts of the parishes of Rothley and Barrow-upon-Soar; the subdistrict of Rothley, containing the parishes of Wanlip, Thurcaston, and Newton	Imperial
  BINGHAM	Nottinghamshire	Newton. Acres, 3,054. Real property, £9,609. Pop., 1,918. Houses, 416. The property is not much divided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £1,503.* Patron, the Earl of Chesterfield. Archbishop Abbot and Bishops Hanmer and Wren were for some time rectors; and Archbishop Cranmer, the astronomer White, Colonel Hutchinson, and Lord Howe were natives of the parish or of its Vicinity. The subdistrict contains the parishes of Bingham, Whatton, Elton, Granby, Langar, Shelton, Sibthorpe, Flintham, Kneeton, East Bridgford, Car-Colston, Screveton, Hawksworth, Thoroton, Orston, Scarrington, Barkestone, and Plungar	Imperial
  BRIDLINGTON	Yorkshire	Wold-Newton, Burton-Fleming, Reighton, and part of Bridlington. Acres, 67,984. Poor-rates in 1866, £4,623. Population	Imperial
  CAISTOR, or Castor	Lincolnshire	Wolds, and the extra-parochial tract of Newsham. Acres, 63,811. Pop., 9,005. Houses, 1,811. The district comprehends also the subdistrict of Great Grimsby, containing the parishes of Great Grimsby, Humberstone, Clee, Scartho, Waltham, Brigsley, Ashby-with-Fenby, Hawerby-with-Beesby, Newton	Imperial
  GRANTHAM	Lincolnshire	GRANTHAM , a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district, in Lincolnshire. The town stands on Ermine-street, near	Imperial
  LEICESTERSHIRE, or LEICESTER	Leicestershire	LEICESTERSHIRE , or LEICESTER, an inland county, nearly in the centre of England, but a little to the E. It is	Imperial
  LINCOLN	Lincolnshire Nottinghamshire	Newton-le-Wold, Rothwell, Swal low, and Swinhope; the vicarages of Cabourn and East Ravendale; and the p. curacy of West	Imperial
  LINCOLNSHIRE, or LINCOLN	Lincolnshire	wolds, but include what formerly were called heaths; and they, at one time, were very generally bleak and waste, but, like the fens, though in a different way, have been so reclaimed as to exhibit now an aspect of luxuriance. The aggregate appearance of the county, notwithstanding the prevalence of level grounds, is very pleasing. The level tracts themselves, indeed, are pleasing chiefly from the ornature of culture; but the other tracts have such inequality of surface, or such diversity of hill and dale, interspersed with wood and lawn, as constitutes the beautiful or even the picturesque in natural scenery	Imperial
  Linton upon Ouse	Yorkshire	township, Newton upon Ouse par., North-Riding Yorkshire, 6½ miles S W. of Easing wold, 2322 ac., pop. 296.	Bartholomew
  Newton le Wold	Lincolnshire	Newton le Wold , par. and vil., Lincolnshire, 8½ miles SW. of Grimsby, 2060 ac., pop. 165.	Bartholomew
  NEWTON-LE-WOLD, Newton-upon-the-Wolds, or Wold-Newton	Lincolnshire	NEWTON-LE-WOLD , Newton-upon-the-Wolds, or Wold-Newton, a village and a parish in Caistor district, Lincoln. The village	Imperial
  Newton Wold	Lincolnshire	Newton Wold , Lincolnshire. See NEWTON LE WOLD.	Bartholomew
  NEWTON-WOLD	Yorkshire	NEWTON-WOLD , a parish in Bridlington parish, E. R. Yorkshire; on the Wolds, 4 miles S W of Hunmanby r. station	Imperial
  Wold Newton	Lincolnshire	Wold Newton .-- vil., Newton le Wold par., Lincolnshire, 8½ miles SW. of Grimsby; P.O. See NEWTON LE WOLD.	Bartholomew
  Wold Newton	Yorkshire	Wold Newton , par. and vil., East-Riding Yorkshire, on the Wolds - par., 2029 ac., pop. 310; vil., 8½ miles	Bartholomew
  WOLD-NEWTON	Yorkshire	WOLD-NEWTON , E. R. Yorkshire. See Newton-Wold.	Imperial

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