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The Parliamentary Gazetteer’s Summary of Folkingham,
1843.
Falkingham or Folkingham, a market-town and parish in
the wapentake
of Aveland, union of Bourne, county of
Lincoln ; 26 miles south-south-east of Lincoln, situated on the post-road from Lincoln to
Peterborough, on the side and summit of a hill, commanding extensive prospects
over the fens. Living, a rectory with the vicarage of Laughton annexed, in the archd. and
dio. of
Lincoln ; rated
at £21 12s. 3½d. ; gross income £513. Patron, in 1835, Sir G. Heathcote. Here are 5 daily schools,
one of which is endowed with £35 per annum, arising from poor land. The market
is held on Thursday ; and there are fairs on Ash-Wednesday, Palm-Monday, and
May 13th, for horses and sheep ; June 13th for horses and horned cattle ; July
3d and 4th for hemp, hardware &c. ; and the Thursday after Michaelmas, and
November 10th and 22d, for horses, cattle, &c. On the site of the ancient castle of
Falkingham, at a little distance from the town, a goal, or house of correction,
has been erected for the parts of Kesteven, and in which also are held the
quarter-sessions. It is a modern elevation of two stories, and surrounded with
a boundary wall of brick of octagonal form. The entrance is through a gate of
open iron-work faced with stone. The prison originally consisted only of the
present frontage, now occupied by the keeper and female prisoners, but was
afterwards enlarged by the addition of a range of buildings in the rear, in the
form of an extended horse-shoe connected at the ends, and leaving an open area
between the two, divided into airing yards, and a passage to the chapel. It
embraces 34 cells, 8 wards, 10 day and work-rooms, and 8 airing-yards. The
number of prisoners, in 1837, was 194. To the south-east of the town is a large
encampment, with a deep fosse and lofty vallum. Within the area is a square
keep of raised earth defended also by a fosse, capable of being filled with
water from the adjoining brook. Acres 1,700. Houses 126. A. P. £3,632. Pop., in
1801, 531 ; in 1831, 744. Poor rates, in 1838, £185 16s.
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