South Thoresby
- The parish was in the Withern sub-district of the Louth Registration District.
- Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to St. Andrew.
- The church was built in 1738.
- The church underwent extensive repairs in 1872.
- The church seats 100.
- A photograph of the St. Andrew's church is at the Wendy Parkinson English Church Photographs site, taken by Paul Fenwick.
- Here is a photo of St. Andrew's Church, taken by Ron Cole (who retains the copyright):
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1660.
- The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Calcewaith and Candleshoe Deanery to make your search easier.
- The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here in 1873. For more on researching these chapel records, see our non-conformist religions page.
- Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.
- The parish was in the Withern sub-district of the Louth Registration District.
- Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which began in July, 1837.
South Thoresby is a village and a parish about 4 miles west of Alford, 8 miles north of Spilsby and about 9 miles southeast of Louth in the Wold hills. A stream called the Withern Eau runs through the parish and eventualy joins the Great Eau. The parish covers about 950 acres.
If you are planning a visit:
- By automobile, take the A16 trunk road south out of Louth just past Swaby. Or, from Alford, take the A1104 arterial road west to the A16, then north on that road about a mile and turn right for South Thoresby.
- See our touring page for visitor services.
- The WOOD family lived in The Hall, which was taken down in 1826.
- The national grid reference is TF 4076.
- 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.
- The name derives from the Old Scandinavian Thorir+by, meaning "farmstead or village of a man called Thorir". It appears as Toresbi in the 1086 Domesday Book.
[A. D. Mills, "A Dictionary of English Place-Names," Oxford University Press, 1991].
- The parish was in the Marsh division of the ancient Calceworth Wapentake in the East Lindsey district and in the parts of Lindsey.
- For today's governance, see the East Lindsey District Council.
- Kelly's 1900 Directory of Lincolnshire places the parish in the South Lindsey district of the county.
- After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became part of the Louth Poor Law Union.
| Year |
Inhabitants |
| 1801 |
150 |
| 1831 |
142 |
| 1871 |
148 |
| 1891 |
139 |
| 1911 |
115 |
- The children of this parish attended school in Aby.
- For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.
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[Last updated: 9-January-2008 - Louis R. Mills]
