Description
Amcotts, a township, a village, and a parish in the Isle of Axholme, Lincolnshire, on the river Trent, 5 miles E by N of Crowie, and 3 SW of Althorpe station on the M.S. & L.R. Post town, Doncaster; money order and telegraph office, Keadby. The parish comprises 2106 acres; population, 332. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln, and was formerly annexed to the rectory of Althorpe; gross yearly value, £360 with residence, in the gift of the Crown. The church, an edifice of stone in the Early English style, was erected in 1853. A former church, dedicated to St Thomas a Becket, fell in 1849. There are Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
