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Asgarby and Howell

civil parish in Lincolnshire, UK

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 16, 2025
Entity authorityQ4804263 ↗
Source-derived summary

Asgarby and Howell is a civil parish in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, consisting of the villages of Asgarby and Howell. According to the 2001 Census, the parish had a population of 69.

The parish church, St Oswald's, dates back to the 14th century.

In 1870–1872, John Marius described Asgarby and Howell as:

Asgarby, a parish in Sleaford district, Lincoln; adjacent to the Boston and Grantham railway, 3 miles E of Sleaford. It includes the hamlet of Boughton; and its Post Town is Sleaford.

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“Asgarby and Howell” enters the record as civil parish in Lincolnshire, UK. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Asgarby, Howell and civil can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2001, 1870, 1872—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Asgarby, Howell and civil.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 16, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4804263. Authority coordinates are 53.000, -0.320. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2001, 1870 and 1872.

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This entry incorporates text from “Asgarby and Howell” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.