Torksey, Lincolnshire

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Torksey is a village in Lincolnshire

Other current and historical names

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Torksey within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Torksey in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Torksey, par., township, and vil. with ry. sta., in co. and 9¾ miles NW. of Lincoln, at the junction of the Foss Dyke and the river Trent - par., 3170 ac., pop. 336; township, pop. 160; P.O.; has the ruins of a castle on the site of a Roman granary, and had a priory founded by King John.

Torksey in the Domesday Book

A village in Well hundred, in the county of Lincolnshire.

Two manors recorded in Domesday.

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