GENUKI: Dorrington, LIN

Dorrington

The parish was in the Sleaford sub-district of the Sleaford Registration District.
Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.

The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saints James and John and was built on a hill overlooking the village. The east wall was rebuilt in 1330.
The village had a small chapel of ease, but this was taken down in 1698. This chapel was appropriated to Shelford Priory in Nottinghamshire.
A photograph of Saints James and John Church is at the Wendy Parkinson English Church Photographs site.
Here is a photo of Saints James and John Church, taken by Ron Cole (who retains the copyright):

Saints James and John Church

The Anglican parish register dates from 1653.
The Lincolnshire FHS has a Loan Library service which has the parish registers on microfiche for Baptisms from 1654 to 1812 and Marriages from 1654 to 1812.
The LFHS has published several marriage and burial indexes for the Lafford Deanery to make your search easier.
Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.
The Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel here, built in 1832, then replaced in 1881. There was also a Wesleyan Reform chapel. For information and assistance in researching these chapels, see our non-conformist religions page.

The parish was in the Sleaford sub-district of the Sleaford Registration District.
Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which began in July, 1837.

This village and parish are north of Sleaford, on the B1188 trunk road. The name is often found as "Dirrington". The parish covers about 1,900 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

In 1841, the Earl of Harrowby was lord of the manor and owner of most of the land in the parish.

The national grid reference is TF 0752.
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.

For governance, the parish was in the ancient Flaxwell Wapentake in the North Kesteven division of the county, parts of Kesteven.
For today's governance, see the North Kesteven District Council.

The common lands were enclosed here in 1789 (one source gives 1878).
After the Poor Law reforms of 1834, the parish became part of the Sleaford Poor Law Union.

[Last updated: 17-July-2006 - Louis Mills]