Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

RAVENDALE (West), a chapelry in East Ravendale parish, Lincoln; 5 miles W by N of North Thoresby r.station, and 8 S S W of Great Grimsby. Post-town, Great Grimsby. Real property, £990. Pop., 50. Houses, 8. A Premonstratensian priory, a cell to Beaufort abbey in Brittany, was founded here in 1202, by Alan, son of the Earl of Brittany; and was given, in 1438, to the collegiate church of Southwell. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the rectory of Hatcliffe, in the diocese of Lincoln. The church has long bee...

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n in ruins.

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