Cumberworth
Note: There is also a North and South Cumberworth in Yorkshire.
- The parish was in the Alford sub-district of the Spilsby Registration District.
- The North Lincolnshire Library at Scunthorpe holds copies of the 1841 and 1881 census returns for Cumberworth.
- Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Helen.
- In 1870 the church was reseated and partially restored.
- The church seats 120.
- The Diocese of Lincoln declared this church redundant in February, 1987. It was sold for residential use in 1989.
- Here is a photo of the church, taken by Ron Cole (who retains the copyright):
- The Anglican church registers are on deposit from 1557 and the registers are available on microfilm from the Family History Library (FHL).
- The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Calcewaith and Candleshoe Deanery to make your search easier.
- The Wesleyan Methodists and Primitive Methodists built chapels here in the 1800's. 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.
Cumberworth (alternately "Cumberwerth") is both a village and a parish which lie about five miles southeast of Alford and about ten miles northnorthwest of Skegness. It is only about 1,274 acres, with Farlesthorpe and Mumby parishes to the north, Willoughby parish to the south and west and Hogsthorpe parish to the east.
If you plan to visit Cumberworth village:
- Take the A52 north out of Skegness and turn left at Mumby.
- For information on visiting, see the Lincolnshire Touring and Holidays page on this site.
- In 1415, and again in 1431, Thomas CUMBERWORTH of Cumberworth was Sheriff of Lincolnshire.
- For a map, go to MultiMap.
- The national grid reference is TF 5073.
- 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 Cumberworth derives from Old English Cumbre+worth, or "enclosure of a man called Cumbra, or of the Britons". It appeared in the 1086 Domesday Book as Cumbreuorde.
[A. D. Mills, "A Dictionary of English Place-Names," Oxford University Press, 1991]
- The parish was in the ancient Calceworth Wapentake in the East Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
- Kelly's 1900 Directory of Lincolnshire reports, perhaps erroneously, that the parish was in the South Lindsey division of the county.
- For today's 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 hearings.
- Around 1895, Joseph Waite HART left £150 in government securities. The interest from this went to the parish poor.
- The poor also have 5 acres of land set aside for their use.
| Year |
Inhabitants |
| 1801 |
132 |
| 1831 |
188 |
| 1871 |
261 |
| 1891 |
193 |
| 1911 |
172 |
| 1991 |
127 |
- A National School was built here in 1874 for 60 children.
- See our Schools page for more information on researching school records.
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[Last updated: 8-August-2008 - Louis R. Mills]
