Anderby
- The parish was in the Alford sub-district of the Spilsby Registration District.
- Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
Census
Year |
Piece No. |
| 1861 |
R.G. 9 / 2378 |
| 1871 |
R.G. 10 / 3397 |
| 1891 |
R.G. 12 / 2605 |
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to St. Andrew.
- The church seats 140.
- There is a photograph of St. Andrew's Church on the Wendy Parkinson web site.
- Here is a photograph of St. Andrew's Church supplied by Ron Cole (who retains the copyright):
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1565.
- Parish registers are on deposit from 1563, and the registers are available on microfilm from the Family History Library (FHL).
- Check the Calcewaith & Candleshoe Deanery for indexes compiled by the LFHS.
- The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here in 1839. For information and assistance in researching these chapels, see our non-conformist religions page.
- Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.
- The parish was in the Alford sub-district of the Spilsby Registration District.
- Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which began in July, 1837.
Anderby is both a village and a parish on the shore of the North Sea, about 5 miles due east of Alford, 14 miles Northeast of Spilsby and just south of Huttoft parish. The A52 trunk road skirts the west edge of the parish. Anderby Creek is the name of a hamlet and a creek, which runs through the parish and empties into the North Sea. The parish encompasses approx. 1,362 acres.
Anderby village is a long, narrow affair. The quiet hamlet of Anderby Creek lies on the seashore, where folks can stop for lunch at the Beach Cafe. If you are planning a visit:
- Anderby is just off the A52 to the east.
- For folks on holiday, there are unspoilt seaside beaches and canoeing on the creek. Caravan and camping facilities can be found in the parish and in nearby Huttoft.
- The Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust has a preserve at Wolla Bank Reedbed.
- Also, take in the Anderby Drainage Museum (open afternoons), Old Pumping Station, Anderby Creek, Lincolnshire, PE24 5PP, Tel: 01754 872599.
- Visit our touring page for more sources.
- An infamous local character was the notorious Skegness smuggler Thomas HEWSON. Hewson was a tailor by profession, but left his family in his native Anderby to take up the free-trade. Among other dark deeds, he was suspected of the murder of a young man of Sloothby: Hewson was known to have lured the lad away from his employer, and was caught with a watch belonging to the youth. However, the body was never found.
- In the early 1900's, brick were made at Anderby. The Lincolnshire Film Archive features a one-minute black and white film of the process from 1934.
- The national grid reference is TF 5275.
- You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer map, which has a scale of 2.5 inches to the mile.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
- The name Anderby is from the Old Scandinavian Ander+by, or "village of a man named Arnthorr". It appeared in the 12th century as Andreby.
["A. D. Mills, A Dictionary of English Place-Names," Oxford University Press, 1991]
- This place was an ancient parish in Lincoln county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
- The parish was in the Marsh division of the ancient Calceworth Wapentake in the East Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
- For today's district governance, see the East Lindsey District Council.
- As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, the parish became part of the Spilsby Poor Law Union.
- Bastardy cases would be heard in the Alford petty sessional courts.
| Year |
Inhabitants |
| 1801 |
167 |
| 1831 |
217 |
| 1871 |
299 |
| 1881 |
279 |
| 1891 |
230 |
| 1911 |
203 |
| 1991 |
311 |
| 2001 |
335 |
- A National School and a master's house were built in 1866. In 1871 it had about 40 students.
- For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.
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[Last updated: 4-September-2012 - Louis R. Mills]
