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Hough on the Hill, Lincolnshire

Historical Description

Hough-on-the-Hill, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire. The village stands on an eminence, 2 miles NW from Hougham station on the G.N.R., and 7¼N from Grantham, is a pleasant place, and has a post office, of the name of Hough, under Grantham; money order and telegraph office, Cay-thorpe. The parish contains also the hamlets of Brandon and Gelston. Acreage, 4028; population, 509. The manor and most of the property belong to Earl Brownlow. An artificial mound near the church bears the name of Castle Hill. Several fine springs, the source of the river Brant, are at the village, and one of them is chalybeate. An Augns-tinian priory, a cell to the abbey of St Mary de Votu at Cher-burgh in Normandy, was founded at Hough about the year 1164, was given by Eichard II. first to the priory ofSpittle-on-the-Street in Lincolnshire, and afterwards to the Chartreuse at Coventry, was restored by Henry IV. to Cherburgh, was transferred by Henry V. to the priory of Montgrace in Yorkshire, and went with that priory, at the Eeformation, to John, Lord Eussell. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £221 with residence. Patron, Earl Brownlow. The church is a building of stone, of the Saxon, Early English, Decorated, and Perpendicular periods; was restored in 1845, consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with fine pinnacled tower, and contains a very ancient font, and two handsome monuments to the Payne family. There area chapel of ease at Brandon, which is an ancient structure, originally Norman, but now chiefly of the Early English period, a Wesleyan Methodist chapel, and an ancient cross at Gelston, an endowed school at Hongh, and some small charities.

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

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyLincolnshire 
Ecclesiastical parishHough-on-the-Hill All Saints 
Poor Law unionGrantham 
WapentakeLoveden 

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Church Records

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BaptismsBannsMarriagesBurials
1651-18591656-16561651-18361651-1895

Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

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Maps

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Newspapers and Periodicals

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Villages, Hamlets, &c

Brandon
Gelston