Description
Dunholme, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, near the source of the Langworth river, 6 miles NNE of Lincoln, and 3^ W of Snelland station on the M.S. & L.R. Post town, Lincoln; money order office, Scothorne; telegraph office, Langworth, 3 miles from Dunhoime, where there is a railway station. Acreage, 2261; population, 336. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net yearly value, £200. Patron, the Bishop of Lincoln. The church is of about the 13th or 14th century date, and contains an interesting recumbent figure of Robert Grantham, founder of the Grantham Charity. There are also some interesting inscriptions in Latin and English on mural tablets. A very old font, and a handsomely carved cupboard within chancel rails, in the north wall, now used as a " credence table " when there is a 'l celebration." There is a small Primitive Methodist chapel.
Dunholme, Lincolnshire
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
