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Lincolnshire Towns & Parishes

Nearby Places

Sixhills

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

• A Gilbertine Priory, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, was endowed here in the reign of King Stephen.
  
  
• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to All Saints.
  
  
• The church was taken down and rebuilt in 1869.
  
  
• The church's gabel turret was struck by lightning in 1871. A new bell tower was built to replace it in 1875. The tower was rebuilt in 1902.
  
  
• The church only seats 75.
  
  
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of shade-covered All Saints Church on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2005.
  
  
• Here is a photo of All Saints Church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
  
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1672 for baptisms and burials and from 1682 for marriages.
  
  
• The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Westwold Deanery to make your search easier.
  
  
• The National Burial Index has 208 burials recorded for All Saints between 1813 and 1900.
  
  
• The Society of Genealogists has microfiche copies of the parish register for baptism and burials 1672-1812 and marriages 1672-1974.
  
  
• The Free Methodists had a chapel built here in 1886. For information and assistance in researching chapel records, see our non-conformist religions page.
  
  
• 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 lie about 4.5 miles south of Market Rasen and a little over 10 miles west of Louth. Just to the north lies North Willingham parish. The parish covers about 1,900 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• Let's hope they've trimmed the bushes around this signpost photographed by David WRIGHT and stored on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2006.
  
  
• See our touring page for visitor services.
  
  

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Maps

• The national grid reference is TF 1787.
  
  
• 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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Politics and Governance

• The parish was in the East division of the ancient Wraggoe Wapentake in the West Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
  
  
• Kelly's 1900 Directory of Lincolnshire places the parish, perhaps erroneously, in the East Lindsey district of the county. The 1913 edition does the same.
  
  
• Today's district governance is provided by the West Lindsey District Council.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, 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	131
1831	169
1841	205
1871	163
1881	175
1891	153
1901	112
1911	120

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Schools

• An Infant's School was built here in 1874 to hold 30 children. This was closed in 1902 and the children of the parish were sent to school in North WIllingham and Hainton.
  
  
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.
  
  

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