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ALFORD

Volume 2 · 47 words · 1860 Edition

a town in Lincolnshire, 24 miles N.N.E. of Boston. It has a free grammar school, founded in 1576, with fellowships in Magdalen College, Cambridge; and some breweries, tanneries, and rope-works. In the vicinity is the medicinal spring called Holy Well, discovered in 1670. Pop. in 1851, 2262.