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Burringham, Lincolnshire

Historical Description

Burringham, a village and a township in Bottesford parish, Lincolnshire, on the river Trent, 5½ miles NE of Epworth, with a station on the M.S. & L.R., and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Doncaster. Acreage of township, 1553; population, 565. Burringham ranked formerly as a chapelry under the vicarage of Bottesford, but was declared a rectory in 1866, in the diocese of Lincoln, united with Gunhouse under the title of Gunhouse-cum-Burringham; joint yearly value, £419 with residence at Gunhouse, in the gift of the Bishop of Norwich. There is a church, a building of red brick in the Gothic style, which was erected in 1857,. and there are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels.

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

Maps

Online maps of Burringham are available from a number of sites:

CountyNorth Lincolnshire
RegionYorkshire and the Humber
CountryEngland
Postal districtDN17
Post TownScunthorpe

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