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Archives & Libraries

The Community Library at Alford has a local history archive that will prove useful in your research.

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Census

  • 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.
1841H.O. 107 / 630
1851H.O. 107 / 2110
1861R.G. 9 / 2377
1871R.G. 10 / 3395
1891R.G. 12 / 2605
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Church History

  • The Anglican parish church was dedicated to Saint Andrew.
     
  • By 1871, the parish church was in ruins. There hasn't been a service held here since 1692. Parishoners attended church at South Ormsby.
     
  • Colin PARK has a photograph of the ruins of St. Andrew's Church on Geo-graph, taken on a sunny day in September, 2013.
     
  • Here is a photo of the church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
     
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Church Records

  • The parish register dates from 1561 and is included in the register of South Ormsby.
     
  • The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Bolingbroke Deanery to make your search easier.
     
  • Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.
     
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Civil Registration

  • 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.
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Description & Travel

This small village and parish are located 5 miles west of Alford. The parish covers only 630 acres.

The village is too small to appear on most small scale (large area) maps. If you plan to visit:

  • By autombile, the parish is just 1 mile west of the A16 trunk road coming south out of Louth.
     
  • See the Lincolnshire Touring and Holidays page on this site.
     
You can see pictures of Calceby which are provided by:

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Gazetteers

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History

There is a Dis-used Medieval Village (DMV) of Calceby jus ENE of the presnt settlement of Calceby.

Chris ? has a photograph of the DMV site on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2013.

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Manors

  • Chris ? has a photograph of Calceby Manor on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2013.
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Maps

  • See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF390757 (Lat/Lon: 53.26013, 0.083084), Calceby which are provided by:

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Politics & Government

  • This place was an ancient parish in the 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.
     
  • Kelly's 1913 Directory of Lincolnshire places the parish in the South Lindsey division of the county.
     
  • For today's district governance, see the East Lindsey District Council.
     
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Poor Houses, Poor Law

  • Bastardy cases would be heard in the Alford petty session hearings.
     
  • As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act reforms, the parish was amalgamated into the Spilsby Poor Law Union.
     
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Population

YearInhabitants
180146
183154
184154
187154
188162
189141
190145
191148
192134
193134
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Schools