Description
Eagle, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, adjacent to the boundary with Notts, 2 miles WNW of Thorpe station on the M.R., and 7^ SW by W from Lincoln. It contains the hamlet of Eagle Bamsdale, and has a post office under Lincoln; money order office, Collingham; telegraph office, Thorpe railway station. Acreage, 1468; population of the civil parish, 395; of the ecclesiastical, which includes Eagle Hall or New Eagle, 463. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; gross yearly value, £144 with residence. The church is an ancient structure of stone. There are Wesleyan and Wesleyan Reform chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
