Descriptive gazetteer entries

We have no further entries in our collection of 19th century descriptive gazetteers about South Elkington, but we do have this information about localities within the associated parish or parishes. You may be able to find further references to South Elkington in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
ACKTHORPE	a hamlet	Imperial
Coach Grange	hamlet	Bartholomew
COACH-GRANGE	a hamlet	Imperial

Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described South Elkington like this:

ELKINGTON (South), a parish in Louth district, Lincoln; 3 miles W of the E Lincoln railway, and 2¼ WNW of Louth. It contains the hamlets of Ackthorpe and Coach-Grange; and has a post office, of the name of Elkington, under Louth. Acres, 3, 049. Real property, £5, 001, of which £270 are in quarries. Pop., 333. Houses, 64. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of North Elkington, in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £370.* Patron, the Rev. W. Smith....

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The church is good.

This is the only descriptive gazetter entry we have found, but you may be able to find further references to South Elkington by doing a full-text search here.

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Travel writing

Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
North Elkington	0	2
Welton le Wold	0	2
Fotherby	0	2
Hallington	0	2
North Ormesby	1	2
Brackenborough	0	2
Louth	2	5
Kelstern	0	2
Calcethorpe	0	2
Little Grimsby	0	2
Raithby	0	1
Utterby	0	2
Keddington	0	2
Withcall	0	2
Grimblethorpe	0	2
Wyham	0	2
Gayton le Wold	0	2
East Wykeham	0	2
Louth Esk	0	2
Ludborough	0	3