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Spittal or Spittal in the Street, Lincolnshire

Historical Description

Spittal or Spittal-in-the Street, a hamlet consisting of one farmhouse and a few cottages, in Glentham, Hemswell, and Bishop Norton parishes, Lincolnshire, on Ermine Street, 8 miles SSE of Kirton-in-Lindsey station on the main line of the M.S. & L.R. Post town, Lincoln; money order office, Glentham; telegraph office, Kirton-in-Lindsey. It had anciently a chapel or hospital founded before 1330, and has now a chapel of ease, the living of which, amounting to £50 a year, is attached to the Spital charity. There is a strong chalybeate spring.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Newspapers and Periodicals

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