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Lincolnshire Towns & Parishes

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Holywell (or Hollywell)

Census

• The parish was in the Corby 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

• For centuries, Holywell was only a chapelry of Castle Bytham.
  
  
• A chapel was built here, apparently from the stones of a Norman church in Aunby which proceeded it.
  
  
• The chapel seats 84.
  
  

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Church Records

• Holywell parish registers exist from 1558.
  
  
• The LFHS has published several indexes (marriage and burial) for the Beltisloe Deanery to make your search easier.
  
  
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.
  
  

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Civil Registration

• The parish was in the Corby sub-district of the Bourne 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

Holywell is a village, a township and a parish which lies just east of the A1 trunk road, south of Castle Bytham and just 7 miles north of Stamford. The small hamlet of Aunby lies in the parish.

There isn't much left of the village these days. If you are planning a visit:

• Check out our touring page for resources.
  
  

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Manors

• Holywell Hall, a stone mansion in a wooded park, was the seat of Col. Charles BIRCH-REYNARDSON, lord of the manor, in 1900.
  
  

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Maps

• The National Grid Reference coordinates are SK 9916.
  
  
• 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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Names, Geographical

• We can presume that the name derives from the Old English for "Holy Well." A medicinal spring rises in the parish.
  
  

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Politics and Governance

• Before it became a Civil Parish, Holywell was a township and chapelry in Careby parish.
  
  
• The parish was in the ancient Beltisloe Wapentake in the South Kesteven district and parts of Kesteven.
  
  
• The Civil Parish was dissolved in 1931.
  
  
• For today's district governance, contact the South Kesteven District Council.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment, this parish became part of the Bourne Poor Law Union.
  
  

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Population

Year	Inhabitants
1801	98
1831	119
1841	98
1871	73
1881	63
1891	70
1901	96
1921	67

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Schools

• The children of this parish attended school in Careby parish.
  
  
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.
  
  

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