Grimoldby

The Library at Louth will prove useful in your research.

Richard CROFT has a photograph of the 19th century lychgate on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2010.

Ian S. has a photograph of The graveyard at St. Edith's on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2013.

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

Census Year	Piece No.
1841	H.O. 107 / 635
1851	H.O. 107 / 2112
1861	R.G. 9 / 2385
1871	R.G. 10 / 3407
1891	R.G. 12 / 2610

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Edith.
   
• The church was built of stone around 1300.
   
• In 1876 the chancel was restored.
   
• The church is a Grade I listed building with British Heritage.
   
• The church seats about 220.
   
• A photograph of the Anglican parish church is at the Wendy PARKINSON English Church Photographs site.
   
• Another photograph of St. Edith's church is at the FLICKR site.
   
• Here is a photo of St. Edith's church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1558.
   
• The Lincolnshire FHS has published several Marriage indexes and a Burial index for the Louthesk Deanery to make your search easier.
   
• A Weslyean Methodist chapel was built here, along with the Primitive Methodists and the United Methodists.
   
• Ian S. has a photograph of the Former Methodist Church on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2013. At that time, the building was "For Sale".
   
• 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 Saltfleet sub-district of the Louth Registration District.
   
• Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which began in July, 1837.

Grimoldby is a village and a parish 5 miles east of Louth in Lincolnshire. The parish of covers over 1,800 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the B1200 arterial road south and east out of Louth toward Saltfleetby. Grimoldby is just north off of the roadway about halfway to Saltfleetby.
   
• Grimoldby used to have a railway station and train service.
   
• There is a caravan park just west of the village.
   
• John FIRTH has a photograph of the Road through Whispering Trees at Grimoldby Grange (just north of the village) on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2012.
   
• Visit our touring page for visitor services.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF391884 (Lat/Lon: 53.374266, 0.089951), Grimoldby 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.

• There is a plaque in St. Edith's church to Pilot Officer Peter Fox who died in World War II.
   
• There is a War Memorial column standing outside St. Edith's church. John READMAN has a photograph of the War Memorial at Geo-graph, taken in 2005.
   
• Ian S. also has a photograph of the War Memorial plaque on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2013.

These ten names are on the War Memorial:

G. BRUMBY  R. SMITH
G. ENDERBY J. SMITH
G. PARRISH W. TURNER
A. SIMPSON A. TURNER
A. SMITH  E. VAMPLEW

• In the 1086 Domesday Book the village is given as Grimalbi.
  [A. D. Mills, "A Dictionary of English Place-Names," Oxford University Press, 1991].

• This place was an ancient parish in Lincolnshire and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish was in the Middle Marsh division of the ancient Louth Eske Wapentake in the East Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
   
• The parish has joined with Manby to form a united Parish Council. You are welcome to contact them regarding civil or political matters, but they are NOT staffed to assist with family history research.
   
• Grimoldby and Manby share a Village Hall, Steve FAREHAM has a photograph of the Village Hall on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2016.
   
• For today's district governance, see the East Lindsey District Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Louth Eske Petty Session Court every other Wednesday.
   
• The Common Lands were enclosed here in 1767.
   
• After the Poor Law Amedment Act of 1834, this parish became part of the Louth Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1801	246
1831	311
1841	267
1871	337
1881	363
1891	321
1901	301
1911	280

• A Public Elementary School for both Grimoldby and Manby was built here in 1871 to hold 114 children.
   
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.