Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HINCASTER

HINCASTER, a township in Heversham parish, Westmoreland; near the Lancaster canal and the Lancaster and Carlisle railway, 4 miles S of Kendal. Acres, 770. Real property, £1, 756. Pop., 143. Houses, 26. The manor belongs to Lady Howard. A Roman station is supposed to have been here.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Heversham CP/AP       Hincaster Tn/CP       Westmorland AncC
Place: Hincaster

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