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Thoresway

Census

• The parish was in the Caistor 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 Mary.
  
  
• The church used to have a western tower, but that was taken down prior to 1880 for safety reasons.
  
  
• The church seats 120.
  
  
• David WRIGHT has a photograph of St. Mary's Church on Geo-graph, taken on a sunny day in March, 2006.
  
  
• John FIRTH has a photograph of the church interior on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2011.
  
  
• Here is a photo of St. Mary's Church taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
  
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register has baptisms and burials from 1726 and marriages from 1728.
  
  
• The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Westwold Deanery to make your search easier.
  
  
• The church was, for a while, part of the short-lived West Walshcroft rural Deanery.
  
  
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.
  
  

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Civil Registration

• The parish was in the Caistor 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

Thoresway is both a village and parish which sits in a valley of the Wolds, 155 miles north of London, about 5 miles south-east of Caistor and 13 miles north-west of Louth. Rothwell parish sits to the north and Walesby parish to the south-west. The parish covers about 2,800 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• Visit our touring page for more sources.
  
  

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History

• The parish was for centuries a rabbit warren, but was brought into cultivation in the 1800s by the application of bonemeal and lime to the soil.
  
  

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Maps

• The national grid reference is TF 1696.
  
  
• You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer map, which has a scale of 2.5 inches to the mile.
  
  
• You might like the 1906 inch-to-the-mile map of North East Lincolnshire.
  
  
• See our Maps page for additional resources.
  
  

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Politics and Governance

• This place was an ancient parish of Lincolnshire and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
  
  
• The parish was in the southern division of the ancient Walshcroft Wapentake in the West Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
  
  
• In April, 1936, this parish gained 1,640 acres when Croxby Civil parish was abolished.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

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

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Population

Year	Inhabitants
1801	106
1831	158
1841	189
1871	220
1881	258
1891	259
1901	220
1911	190

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Schools

• A Public Elementary School was built here for 50 children and an additional classroom was added in 1884. Another addition occured in 1903.
  
  
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.
  
  

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