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- The parish was in the Wragby sub-district of the Horncastle Registration District.
- Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
Census Year | Piece No. |
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1841 | H.O. 107 / 627 |
1851 | H.O. 107 / 2107 |
1861 | R.G. 9 / 2365 |
1871 | R.G. 10 / 3379 |
1891 | R.G. 12 / 2597 |
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Julian.
- Many portions of the church date from Norman times. The rood screen dates from about the middle of the 15th century.
- The church underwent restoration in 1874-75.
- The church seats 250.
- J. HANNAH-BRIGGS has a photograph of St. Julian's Church on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2011.
- Here are three photos of St. Julian's church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1691.
- The IGI (International Genealogical Index) has parish register entries for 1561-1737 and 1741-1843. It also has BTs (assuming not given the wrong year or wrong parish) for 1736, 1737, 1741, 1743, 1748, 1749, 1751 to 1764. Batch numbers are: C025471 and C025472. [Bernard Kettlewell]
- The LFHS has published several marriage indexes for the Horncastle Deanery to make your search easier.
- The United Methodists built a chapel here in 1840. 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 Wragby sub-district of the Horncastle Registration District.
- Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which started in July, 1837.
Benniworth (or Benningworth) is both a village and a parish in the Wolds, nine miles NNW of Horncastle and eight miles WSW of Louth. Sotby parish lies to the south and Market Stainton to the southeast. The parish covers about 3,000 acres.
If you are planning a visit:
- By automobile, take the A158 trunk road north out of Horncastle and at the junction with the B1256, take that arterial road north about 6 miles to Benniworth. The village will be off to the left.
- For bus schedules and car hire services see our Transport page.
- Visit our touring page for more sources.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Benniworth to another place.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF209818 (Lat/Lon: 53.319331, -0.1865), Benniworth which are provided by:
- OpenStreetMap
- Google Maps
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Old Maps Online
- National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.
For a photograph of the Benniworth War Memorial and the list of names on the plaque, see the Roll of Honour site.
- This place was an ancient parish in the county of Lincoln and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
- The parish was in the ancient Wraggoe Wapentake in the East Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
- For today's governance, see the East Lindsey District Council.
- Bastardy cases would be heard in the Wragby petty session hearings on the first Thursday of every month.
- As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, the parish became part of the Horncastle Poor Law Union.
Year Inhabitants 1801 277 1811 302 1821 346 1831 373 1841 488 1851 466 1871 411 1881 381 1891 357 1901 296 1911 320 1921 290 1931 270
- A Church of England School was built here in 1869 to hold 70 children. Average attendance in 1900 was 35.
- For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.