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THE

Parliamentary Gazetteer

OF

ENGLAND AND WALES,
LIBRARY

Adapted to the most recent Statistical Arrangements, and

Lines of Railroad and Canal Communication,

WITH A COMPLETE COUNTY-ATLAS OF ENGLAND,

FOUR LARGE MAPS OF WALES,

AND AN APPENDIX,

CONTAINING THE RESULTS, IN DETAIL, OF THE CENSUS OF 1841.

VOLUME III.
L-Q.

A. FULLARTON & CO.:

STEAD'S PLACE, LEITH WALK, EDINBURGH;
AND 106 NEWGATE STREET, LONDON.

1851.

MEM AOKK

EDINBURGH:

FULLARTON AND MACNAB, PRINTERS, LEITH WALK.

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-LACEBY, a parish and village in the wapentake of Bradley-Haverstoe, parts of Lindsey, union of Caistor, county of Lincoln; 4 miles west-south-west of Great Grimsby, on a small stream which flows into the Humber. Living, a rectory in the archd. and dio. of Lincoln; rated at £12 Os. 10d.; gross income £557; nett income £474. Patron, in 1835, John Fardell, Esq. Here are 5 daily schools, one of which is a free school, founded and endowed in 1712, in pursuance of the will of Mr. William Stamford, for poor children of the parishes of Laceby, Barnoldby, and Bradley. The children of Laceby are also entitled to attend the free school at Humberston. The country in the vicinity is beautiful and fertile. Near the village is an ancient earth-work, in the neighbourhood of which is a remarkable spring, called Wellbeck, which is uniformly dry during the winter season, but in the month of February or March, a loud, rumbling noise is heard in the ground for several successive days, and at length the water bursts forth in a hundred places, with such incredible force, as to fill, in a few hours, the whole area of the well or enclosure of earth where it is situated, which is a parallelopiped of 50 yards long by 45 wide, and 2 deep; and then entering into a natural channel, it forms a rapid stream, during the summer, that falls into the river Freshney; and their united waters are emptied into the sea at Grimsby. When this spring breaks, several others of smaller dimensions, in the immediate neighbourhood, which appear to be subject to the same laws and influence, burst forth at the same time; and being together exhausted about the month of October, they cease and remain dry until the reservoir beneath the surface is again surcharged by the rains and snows of winter. Acres 1,650. Houses 138. A. P. £2,762. Pop., in 1801, 368; in 1831, 616. Poor rates, in 1838, £179 17s.

LACERTON, or LAZARTON, a hamlet in the parish of Stour-Paine, county of Dorset; 2 miles north-west of Blandford-Forum. This appears to have been anciently a distinct parish and manor. -See Hutchin's Dorset.

LACH-DENNIS, a township in the parish of Great Budworth, co.-palatine of Chester; 3 miles east-south-east of Norwich. Acres 300. Houses 4. A. P. £614. Pop., in 1801, 43; in 1831, 32. Poor rates, in 1838, £13 11s.

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Mersey, and intersected by the Mersey and Irwell canal. Living, a perpetual curacy in the archd, and dio. of Chester, not in charge; returned at £94; gross income £181. Patron, in 1835, W. Hall, Esq. There are 4 daily schools in this chapelry. Acres 1,010. Houses 422. A. P. £5,143. Pop., in 1801, 754; in 1831, 2,166. Poor rates, in 1838, £411 13s.

LACHINGDON. See LATCHINGDON.

LACKENBY, a hamlet in the parish of KirkLeatham, north riding of Yorkshire; 33 miles northwest of Guisborough, and south of the mouth of the Tees. Tithes commuted in 1803.

LACKFORD HUNDRED, in the county of Suffolk, is bounded on the north by the county of Norfolk; on the east by the hundred of Blackbourn, and part of Norfolkshire; on the south and south-east by the hundreds of Thingoe and Risbridge, and on the west by Cambridgeshire. Area 79,800 acres. Houses 2,401. Pop., in 1831, 13,109.

LACKFORD, a parish in the hund. and union of Thingoe, county of Suffolk; 5 miles north-west of Bury St. Edmunds, on the river Lark. Living, a rectory, formerly in the archd. of Sudbury and dio. of Norwich, now in the dio. of Ely; rated at £19 10s. 5d.; gross income £288. Patron, in 1835, Sir C. Kent, Bart. Here is a day and Sunday school. Charities, in 1829, £12 10s. per annum. Expenditure for relief and maintenance of the poor in 1838, £59 11s. Acres 2,470. Houses 29. A. P. £1,642. Pop., in 1801, 162; in 1831, 193.

LACKINGDON. See LATCHINGDON.

LACKINGTON (WHITE), a parish in the hund. of Abdick and Bulstone, union of Chard, county of Somerset; 1 mile east-north-east of Ilminster, on the Ilchester road, and east of the Chard canal. Living, a discharged vicarage in the archd. of Taunton and dio. of Bath and Wells; rated at £7 10s.; gross income £230; in the patronage of the prebendary of Lackington, in Wells cathedral. Acres 1,170. Houses 55. A. P. £3,370. Pop., in 1801, 190; in 1831, 254. Poor rates, in 1838, £102 17s.

LACON, a township in the parish of Wem, bund. of North Bradford, county of Salop; about 2 miles north-east of Wem. Pop., in 1821, 45; in 1831, 45. Other returns with the parish.

LACOCK, or LAYCOCK, à parish and village in the hund. and union of Chippenham, county of Wilts; LACHFORD, a chapelry in the parish of Grap- 3 miles south of Chippenham, and 11 east-northpenhall, co.-palatine of Chester; about a mile south-east of Bath, on the banks of the Avon, and in the east of Warrington, on the southern bank of the line of the Wilts and Berks canal, and of the Great

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