Linwood or Lynwode, Lincolnshire

Historical Description

Linwood or Lynwode, a parish in Lincolnshire, 2 miles S of Maiket Rasen, and 3 NNE of Wickenby stations on the Hull and Lincoln branch of the M.S. & L.K. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Market Rasen. Acreage, 2371; population, 193. The manor, with most of the land, belongs to the Gordon family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £300 with residence. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Early English, Decorated and Perpendicular styles; consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with tower and spire, and contains canopied brasses of J. Lyndwode and family of 1419-21. Lynwode Manor House is a chief residence.

Administration

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

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Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Linwood or Lynwode from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Linwood (St. Cornelius))

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lincolnshire papers online:

• Grantham Journal
• Grimsby Daily Telegraph
• Lincolnshire Chronicle
• Lincolnshire Echo
• Lincolnshire Free Press
• Louth and North Lincolnshire Advertiser
• Stamford Mercury