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Lincolnshire Towns & Parishes

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Lissington

Census

• The parish was in the Market Rasen sub-district of the Caistor 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 John the Baptist.
  
  
• The church was restored in 1895 and again in 1911-12.
  
  
• The church is a Grade II listed building with British Heritage.
  
  
• The church seats 100.
  
  
• Richard CROFT has a wintertime photograph of St. John's Church taken in January, 2013.
  
  
• Here is a photo of St. John's Church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
  
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1562.
  
  
• There are 301 burials listed in the National Burial Index (NBI) covering 1813-1900.
  
  
• The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Westwold Deanery to make your search easier.
  
  
• The Wesleyan Methodists and the United Methodists each had a small chapel here. For information and assistance in researching these chapels, see our non-conformist religions page.
  
  
• Jonathan THACKER has a photograph of one of theMethodist Chapels taken in December, 2012.
  
  
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.
  
  

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Civil Registration

• The parish was in the Market Rasen sub-district of the Caistor 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 south of Market Rasen and 4 miles north of Wragby. The parish covers just over 1,500 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• Visit our touring page for visitor services.
  
  

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History

• There is a photograph of the White Hart Public House taken by Glyn DRURY in 2010.
  
  
• And another White Hart P. H. taken by John FIRTH in 2012.
  
  
• The White Hart Public House provided a centre for community gossip and communication. Individuals' names associated with the Inn from directories are:
  
  

There are no lodgers at the Inn in the 1871 census (R.G. 10/3426 folio 55), but there is one visitor:

Relationship	Name	Sex	Age	Where born
head	John H. BARKER	M	49	Tealby, Lincolnshire
wife	Charlotte BARKER	F	32	Waddingham, Lincolnshire
son	Humphrey BARKER	M	14	Lissington, Lincolnshire
dau.	Margaret BARKER	F	7	Lissington, Lincolnshire
dau.	Betsy Kitha BARKER	F	5	Lissington, Lincolnshire
son	Harold P. BARKER	M	3	Lissington, Lincolnshire
visitor	Betsy PICKERING	F	33	Legsby, Lincolnshire
servant	Alice ATKINSON	F	24	Kingerby, Lincolnshire
servant	Emma SILVESTER	F	15	Lissington, Lincolnshire

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Maps

• The national grid reference is TF 1083.
  
  
• 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

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

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Politics and Governance

• This place was an ancient parish in county Lincoln and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
  
  
• The parish was in the western division of the ancient Wraggoe Wapentake in the West Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
  
  
• In March, 1887, this parish gave up a few of its fields to enlarge Buslingthorpe Civil Parish.
  
  
• A 1900 Kelly's Directory shows the parish being in the East Lindsey division of the parts of Lindsey.
  
  
• Today's district governance is provided by the West Lindsey District Council.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, this parish became part of the Caistor Poor Law Union.
  
  
• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Wragby petty session hearings.
  
  

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Population

Year	Inhabitants
1801	153
1831	182
1841	186
1871	289
1881	259
1891	220
1901	202
1911	199

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Schools

• A small Public Elementary School was built here in 1854. In 1911, it had an average attendance of 42 students. The school closed in December, 1950.
  
  
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.
  
  

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