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Lincolnshire Towns & Parishes

Nearby Places

Dowsby

Census

• Dowsby parish was in the Aslackby sub-district of the Bourne Registration District.
  
  
• 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 St. Andrew.
  
  
• Some portions of the building appear to be from the early Norman period.
  
  
• The church was restored in 1864.
  
  
• The church seats only about 140 people.
  
  
• There is a photograph of St. Andrew's Church on the Wendy Parkinson web site under her "Still more Lincolnshire churches".
  
  
• Here are two photographs of St. Andrew's Church, taken by Ron Cole (who retains the copyright):
  
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican church parish registers exist from 1670.
  
  
• Dowsby is in the Aveland and Ness Deanery. You may wish to purchase some of the Deanery marriage indexes.
  
  
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.
  
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

Dowsby is both a town and a parish six miles north of Bourne. Rippingale parish lies to the south. The South Forty Foot Drain completes the eastern border. East Graby is a hamlet in this parish, near the Aslackby parish border. The parish covers about 1,820 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, the A15 trunk road, formerly known as the "Great Road from London to Lincoln," passes down the west side of the parish.
  
  
• See our touring page for more sources.
  
  

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Manors

• Dowsby Hall is a fine Elizabethan mansion of stone.
  
  

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Maps

• The national grid reference is TF 1129.
  
  
• You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer map, which has 2.5 inches to the mile scale.
  
  
• See our Maps page for additional resources.
  
  

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Names, Geographical

• The name Dowsby is from the Old Scandinavian Dusi+by, for "farmstead of Dusi", appearing in the 1086 Domesday Book as Dusebi.
  [A. D. Mills, "A Dictionary of English Place-Names," Oxford University Press, 1991]
  
  

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Politics and Governance

• The parish was in the ancient Aveland Wapentake in the South Kesteven district in the parts of Kesteven.
  
  
• For today's local governance, contact the South Kesteven District Council.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• After the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act reforms, the parish became part of the Bourne Poor Law Union.
  
  

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Population

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Schools

• A Public Elementary School was built here in 1864 to hold up to 65 children.
  
  
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.
  
  

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