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Six-Hills (All Saints)

SIX-HILLS (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Caistor, E. division of the wapentake of Wraggoe, parts of Lindsey, county of Lincoln, 5 miles (E. S. E.) from Market-Rasen; containing 205 inhabitants. A Gilbertine priory of nuns and canons, in honour of the Blessed Virgin, was founded here by one Grella or Greslei, and at the Dissolution had a revenue of £170. 8. 9.; the site was granted to Sir Thomas Heneage. The parish comprises an area of about 1500 acres, of which the soil is partly marl, and partly clay, with sand; the substratum contains limestone, which is quarried for burning into lime, and also for building. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at £6; net income, £67, with a small glebe and house; patron and impropriator, George F. Heneage, Esq. The church is a neat plain structure.

Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.

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