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Morton (Gainsborough), Lincolnshire

Historical Description

Morton, a village, a township, and a chapelry in Gainsborough parish, Lincolnshire. The village stands on the river Trent, at the boundary with Notts, and near thfr M.S. & L.R., 1¼ mile N by W of Gainsborough town and railway stations (Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint line and M.S. & L.R.); is a picturesque place, and has a-post, money order, and telegraph office under Gainsborough, also wharves, corn mills, rope and sack works, and maltings. The township comprises 848 acres; population, 1137. Ther& is a parish council consisting of eleven members. The manor-belongs to the Bacon family. Morton House is a mansion of stone standing in its own grounds. The chapelry is not far from conterminate with the township, and was constituted in 1846. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £287 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Lincoln. The church, erected in 1891, is a building of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, with a chapel on the south side, nave, aisles, transepts, and embattled western tower. There are Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels.

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 
Civil parishGainsborough 
Poor Law unionGainsborough 
WapentakeCorringham 

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