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Lincolnshire Towns & Parishes

Nearby Places

Timberland

Census

• The parish was in the Billinghay sub-district of the Sleaford 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 St. Andrew.
  
  
• The church seats about 200.
  
  
• Here is a photograph of St. Andrew's Church supplied by Ron Cole (who retains the copyright):
  
  
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1563, but many of the early entries are indecipherable.
  
  
• We have the very beginning of a Parish register Extract as a text file for your review. Your additions and corrections are gladly accepted.
  
  
• The Lincolnshire FHS has the parish register on microfiche for 1660 - 1812. These fiche can be interlibrary loaned.
  
  
• The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Graffoe Deanery to make your search easier.
  
  
• The village had a Wesleyan Methodists chapel and there was one in the Dales as well. The Primitive Methodists also had a chapel here. For more on researching these 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 Billinghay sub-district of the Sleaford 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

Timberland is both a village, a township and a parish 128 miles north of London, just south of the River Welland, due west of Coningsby. The parish is bounded on the north by Martin parish, to the west by Thorpe Tilney township and by the Tattershall and Coningsby parishes to the east. The area is flat fenland, drained by many small canals.

If you are planning a visit:

• The village is at the intersection of two trunk roads: the B1191 and the B1189, about seven miles north of Sleaford.
  
  
• See our touring page for more sources.
  
  

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Maps

• The national grid reference is TF 1258.
  
  
• You'll want an Ordnance Survey "Explorer 261" map, which has 2.5 inches to the mile scale.
  
  
• See our "Maps" page for additional resources.
  
  

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Politics and Governance

• The parish was in the first division of the ancient Langoe Wapentake in the North Kesteven district in the parts of Kesteven.
  
  
• For today's governance, see the North Kesteven District Council.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• The Common Lands were enclosed here in 1789.
  
  
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, the parish became part of the Sleaford Poor Law Union.
  
  

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Population

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Schools

• A Church School was built here in 1843.
  
  
• Timberland village had a mixed school built in 1840 to hold up to 85 children.
  
  
• Timberland Dales had a mixed school built in 1875 to hold up to 70 children.
  
  
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.
  
  

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