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Driby

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:
  
  

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Michael.
  
  
• The original church here is thought to date to pre-1583.
  
  
• The church was rebuilt in stone in 1849-50.
  
  
• The 1949 series "The King's England" by Arthur Mees advises that Driby had "a little stone church completely rebuilt last century".
  
  
• The church was declared redundant by the Diocese of Lincoln in October, 1974. It was converted for residential use in February, 1978.
  
  
• The church seats only about 80.
  
  
• There is a photograph of St Michael's Church on the Geograph site.
  
  

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Church Records

• The parish register dates from 1622.
  
  
• The parish register for burials covers only 1815-1941.
  
  
• Please help by adding to our Parish Register Extract text file for other researchers.
  
  
• The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Bolingbroke Deanery to make your search easier.
  
  
• After 1880, the church boundaries were re-organized and this church became part of the rural Hill No. 1 Deanery. All family history records will be in the indexes for Bolingbroke Deanery.
  
  
• 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 and Travel

This village and parish are 4 miles west of Alford and 6 miles north of Spilsby. The parish covers just under 1,400 acres.

Driby village has always been a small place. If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A16 trunk road south from Louth past Swaby. The village will be on the right, about 1 mile before the A1028 intersection.
  
  
• By bus or coach, check the Carlberry Co. bus schedule.
  
  
• For information on visiting, see the Lincolnshire Touring and Holidays page on this site.
  
  

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Directories

• We have a couple of Directory quotes for Driby.
  
  

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Manors

• Driby Manor was, for over two centuries, the estate of the knightly family of DRIBY.
  
  
• The Manor later passed to the PRESCOT family.
  
  

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Maps

• The national grid reference is TF 3874.
  
  
• 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.
  
  

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Politics and Governance

• This place was an ancient parish of Lincolnshire and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
  
  
• The parish was in the ancient Candleshoe Wapentake in the East Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
  
  
• For today's district governance, see the East Lindsey District Council.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• 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.
  
  

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Population

Year	Inhabitants
1801	66
1831	89
1871	100
1881	117
1891	115
1901	85
1911	75
1921	68
1931	52
1951	52

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Postal Codes

• The postal code for this parish is LN13.
  
  

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Schools

• The children of this parish attended school in South Ormsby.
  
  
• See our Schools page for more information on researching school records.
  
  

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