Dunston

The Lincoln City Library is an excellent resource with a Local History section and a Family History section.

• The parish was in the South West sub-district of the Lincoln Registration District.
   
• Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Peter and appears to date from the 13th century.
   
• The church was rebuilt in 1874, with the exception of the tower. The church was reconsecrated in February, 1876.
   
• The Anglican parish churchyard was enlarged in 1890 and again in 1910.
   
• The church seats 250.
   
• There is a photograph of St. Peter's Church on the Wendy PARKINSON Church Photos web site.
   
• Here is a photo of St. Peter's Church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1564.
   
• The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Graffoe Deanery to make your search easier.
   
• There were chapels here for the Wesleyan Methodists, the Primitive Methodists and the Wesleyan Reform Methodists. 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 South West sub-district of the Lincoln Registration District.
   
• Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which began in July, 1837.

Dunston is a village and a large parish a few miles southeast of Lincoln in Lincolnshire, just south of Nocton parish. Metheringham parish is to the south. The parish covers almost 3,400 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• Richard CROFT has a photograph of the Dunston Brook at Geo-graph, taken in 2007.
   
• By automobile, take the B1198 trunk road, south out of Lincoln. Just past Nocton, about a mile further on, the village will be to your left, just off the road.
   
• For bus service, check Lincsbus Info.
   
• See our touring page for more sources.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Dunston to another place.

• Dunston had an "inland lighthouse," one of the few in England. There is more information on the Dunston Pillar page.
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of the Red Lion Public House at Geo-graph, taken in 2008. The Red Lion has been in operation for over 100 years.
• The Red Lion has its own website but no history!
• These are the names associated with the Red Lion in various directories:

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF065630 (Lat/Lon: 53.153668, -0.409412), Dunston which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

• This place was an ancient parish in county Lincoln and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish was in the second division of the ancient Langoe Wapentake in the North Kesteven division of the county, in the parts of Kesteven.
   
• You may contact the local Parish Council regarding civic or political issues, but they are NOT staffed to assist you with family history searches.
   
• For today's district governance, see the North Kesteven District Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard at the Lincoln South petty session hearings.
   
• As a result of the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, the parish became part of the Lincoln Poor Law Union.

Year	Inhabitants
1801	279
1841	518
1851	594
1871	598
1881	782
1891	652
1901	572
1911	577
1921	532

• A Public Elementary School was erected here in 1852 and later enlarged. It was enlarged again in 1890 to hold up to 135 children.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of this old school at Geo-graph, taken in 2007.
   
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.