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Bracebridge

Census

• The parish was in the Home ("Lincoln Home") sub-district of the Lincoln Registration District.
  
  
• We have a partial extract of surnames from the 1901 Census in a text file for your review. Your additions are welcome.
  
  
• Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
  
  
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to All Saints.
  
  
• The church is built of stone. The building appears to date from the 13th century.
  
  
• In 1893 the tower was completely restored.
  
  
• The church seats about 350 people.
  
  
• All Saints is located in Brant Road, off the Newark Road, Lincoln.
  
  
• The mission church of St. John was built in 1910.
  
  
• Here is a photo of All Saints Church, taken by Ron Cole (who retains the copyright):
  
  

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Church Records

• The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Graffoe Deanery to make your search easier.
  
  
• The parish has also been in the Longoboby Deanery in the 1800s.
  
  
• The United Methodists had a chapel here by 1900. The Primitive Methodists built their chapel in 1872. For information and assistance in researching these chapels, see our non-conformist religions page.
  
  
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.
  
  

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Civil Registration

• The parish was in the Home ("Lincoln Home") sub-district of the Lincoln Registration District.
  
  
• Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which began in July, 1837.
  
  

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Description and Travel

This village and parish lie just south of Lincoln in Lincolnshire, across the River Witham. Waddington parish is to the south. The parish only covers about 395 acres, far smaller than in earlier times. In 1881, the parish covered about 1,500 acres.

The village of Bracebridge Heath is the largest village in the parish, lying about a half mile from the River Witham. If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A15 trunk road south out of Lincoln or north out of Sleaford. Where the A607 arterial road out of Grantham intersects, you are in Bracebridge Heath village.
  
  
• Bracebridge Heath Village Hall is on Red Hall Lane, to the west of the A15 road.
  
  
• Visit our touring page for more sources.
  
  

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Manors

• Red Hall, about two and a half miles southeast of Lincoln, is a handsome redbrick mansion.
  
  

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Maps

• The national grid reference is SK 9668.
  
  
• You'll want an Ordnance Survey "Explorer 272" map, which has 2.5 inches to the mile scale.
  
  
• See our Maps page for additional resources.
  
  

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Medical Records

• The parish was home to the Lindsey and Holland counties and Lincoln and Grimsby District Lunatic Asylum. Please see our Bracebridge Asylum page for more information.
  
  

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Military Records

• For additional military information, see our Military Records page.
  
  
• Here is the text of the Military Monument at Bracebridge: (Thank you, John Emerson)
  
  

Lest we forget
Erected by the grateful inhabitants of Bracebridge

In proud and honoured memory of the men of Bracebridge who gave their lives for the World's freedom in the Great War 1914-1919

John Andrews
Horace Barnsdale
Thomas Bowman
Arthur Brown
Harry Bradford
Sidney Brown
William Cowley
Stanhope Crabtree
James Fisher
Wilfred Harrison

William Harrison
Sidney Head
Walter Head
Alfred Heath
John Heath
John Herrick
Percy Herring
Nelson Hilton
Charles Homeey
Arthur Cousins
Harry Duncombe
Fred Jenkinson
William Johnson
Walter Marshall
Frank May
Fred May
Arthur Prestwood
Thomas Rush
Herbert Seymour
Arthur Skins
Harry Johnson
Harold Richardson

Jack Skipworth
Edward Smith
Ernest Speechley
William Steadman
John Walmsley
Arthur Welberry
Edward Whiting
Henry Whitworth
William Williamson
Jack Foster
Charles Sargent
James W. West

In proud memory of the Bracebridge men who fell in the second World War 1939-1945

Alcock H
Andrews R
Barnsdale P
Bavin S
Bean H
Caunt J.V.
Cottingham W
Dickinson R
Evans J.W.
Fowler G.W.
Fox F
Graves G
Harness D.V.
Horton E
Larkins A
Lound R.C.
Malam H
Norton S
Pattison J
Pacy R
Peadon A.H.
Plackett G.G.
Richardson T.S.
Robinson G
Robinson S
Sanderson G
Skinner R
Steel R.A.
Sowden D
Wright F
Woolsey B.F.

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Politics and Government

• The parish was in the ancient Graffoe (or Boothby Graffoe) Wapentake in the Central Lindsey division of the county, parts of Lindsey.
  
  
• In ancient times, the parish was a Liberty of Lincoln.
  
  
• Boundary realignments sometimes placed the parish in the West Lindsey division of the county. It is also considered part of the Lincoln City Parliamentary Borough as of 1885. The village formed its own Urban District Council in April, 1898.
  
  
• The civil parish is technically "Bracebridge Heath". It was formed on 31 March, 1898 from the old ecclesiastical parish of Bracebridge.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, the parish became part of the Lincoln Poor Law Union.
  
  

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Population

Population figures for this parish often include the large county asylum's inmates and staff as well.

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Postal and Shipping Guides

• The postcode is: LN5 9BD.
  
  

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Schools

• A school board was formed in 1878. Their district included Boultham parish.
  
  
• A girls' and infants' school was built here at South Cliff in 1880.
  
  
• A boys' school was built here in 1902.
  
  
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.
  
  

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