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The Library at Louth will prove useful in your research.
- The parish was in the Louth 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
YearPiece No. 1841 H.O. 107 / 632 1851 H.O. 107 / 2111 1861 R.G. 9 / 2383 1871 R.G. 10 / 3404 1891 R.G. 12 / 2608 1901 R.G. 13 / 3084
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Helen.
- The church was rebuilt in 1852.
- The present church is at least the third building to stand on this site since the 11th century.
- The church seats about 100.
- The Diocese of Lincoln declared this church redundant in October, 1981. In June, 1984, the church was sold for residential use.
- John BEAL has a photograph of the sign outside St. Helen's Church on Geo-graph, taken in 2007.
- The church building is a Grade II listed building with British Heritage.
- Here is a photo of St. Helen's Church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1702.
- Check our North Elkington Parish Register Extract pop-up text file for possible relatives. You are welcome to add your extracts.
- The Lincolnshire Archives holds the parish register from 1701 to 1812 (North Eklington Par/1/1).
- The London Family History Centre holds the Bishop's Transcripts from 1563 to 1838.
- The Lincolnshire FHS has published several Marriage indexes and a Burial index for the Louthesk Deanery to make your search easier.
- Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.
- The parish was in the Louth sub-district of the Louth Registration District.
- Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which began in July, 1837.
North Elkington is both a village and a parish 4 miles north-west of Louth. The parish covers almost 1,300 acres (early directory entries give the parish only 991 acres of land) and includes the hamlet of Boswell.
If you are planning a visit:
- Richard CROFT has a photograph of the old Deserted Medieval Village area on Geo-graph, taken in 2007.
- By automobile, take the A631 west out of Louth and pass through South Elkington. Turn right after about 2 miles and follow the road into North Elkington.
- See our touring page for more sources.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from North Elkington to another place.
- The village was deserted in the medieval period and was refounded nearby a few hundred years ago.
- The Deserted Medieval Village (DMV) was a short disance southeast of the present village. Chris ? has an aerial photograph of the Deserted Medieval Village area on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2016.
- Boswell is west of North Elkington village and has a Bronze Age Bowl Barrow.
Chris ? has a phtograph of Manor Farm on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2013.
Ian S. has a phtograph of Boswell House on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2018. This stately house sits west of North elkington village.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF286904 (Lat/Lon: 53.394743, -0.066776), North Elkington 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.
- EKWALL's "Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names" (4th Edition, 1977), tells us that Elkington is mentioned in the 1086 Domesday Book: "Alchinton", and the name is cited in c1115 "Helchingtuna", 1205 "Northalkinton" and 1209 "Norhelkinton".
- This place was an ancient parish in Lincolnshire and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
- You may contact the joint Elkington Parish Council regarding civic or political issues, but they can NOT do family history searches for you.
- The parish was in the ancient Ludborough Wapentake in the East Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
- In the 1900s, the parish was in the Wold division of the ancient Louth Eske Wapentake in the East Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
- For today's district governance, see the East Lindsey District Council.
- After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became part of the Louth Poor Law Union.
- Bastardy cases would be heard in the Louth petty session hearings every other Wednesday.
Year Inhabitants 1801 51 1811 56 1831 100 1841 91 1871 96 1881 89 1891 82 1901 95 1911 102 1921 57 1931 60 1951 55 1971 60
- The children of this parish attended school at South Elkington.
- For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.