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Lincolnshire Towns & Parishes

Nearby Places

North Hykeham

Census

• The parish was in the South West sub-district of the Lincoln Registration District.
  
  
• Wendy Parkinson has the North Hykeham 1861 census transcribed and indexed online.
  
  
• Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
  
  
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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Church History

• This section has been moved to another page due to size. Please click here to enjoy the history and photographs of the church.
  
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to All Saints.
  
  
• The church was rebuilt in 1858.
  
  
• The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Graffoe Deanery to make your search easier.
  
  
• The Wesleyans Methodists had a chapel here, built in 1838. For information and assistance in researching this chapel, see our non-conformist religions page.
  
  
• Wendy Parkinson has agreed to do census (1841 - 1891) and parish register lookups (1813 - 1900) for any interested persons. See the information she has online at: North and South Hykeham information.
  
  
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.
  
  

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Civil Registration

• The parish was in the Southwest sub-district of the Lincoln 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

North Hykeham is a town and a parish two miles southwest of the city of Lincoln. It lies west of the the A15 trunk road and east of the A46 trunk road ("Foss Way"). The River Witham (actually the Fossdyke Canal) forms a portion of the eastern parish boundary. Doddington is the neighboring parish on the west side. The parish covers approx. 1,900 acres. Springbeck, also called Swallowbeck, is a hamlet in this parish. It sits along the Newark Road.

If you are planning a visit:

• Consider the Loudor Hotel at 37 Newark Road, LN6 8RB.
  
  
• See our touring page for more sources.
  
  

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Manors

• Hykeham Hall was the residence of Frederick STRAW in 1900.
  
  

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Maps

• The national grid reference is SK 9465.
  
  
• For a map, click on MultiMap.
  
  
• 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

• The name Hykeham is possibly from the Old English Hice+ham, for "small bird enclosure", appearing in the 1086 Domesday Book as Hicham.
  ["A Dictionary of English Place-Names," A. D. Mills, Oxford University Press, 1991]
  
  

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Politics and Governance

• The parish was in the ancient Boothby Graffoe Wapentake in the North Kesteven division of the county, in the parts of Kesteven.
  
  
• For today's governance, see the North Kesteven District Council.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• In 1609, the Reverend RUSSELL left 13s. 10d, per year for the poor.
  
  
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, the parish became part of the Lincoln Poor Law Union.
  
  

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Population

As Lincoln city has grown, so has this parish, which is now partly a suburb of Lincoln.

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Schools

• A National School was built here to hold up to 118 children. It was enlarged in 1908.
  
  
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.
  
  

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