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The Library at Louth will prove useful in your research.
- The parish was in the Louth sub-district of the Louth Registration District.
- Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
- The table below gives census piece numbers where known.
Census Year | Piece No. |
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1851 | H.O. 107 / 2111 |
1861 | R.G. 9 / 2381 |
1871 | R.G. 10 / 3404 |
1901 | R.G. 13 / 3084 |
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Martin.
- The church was built of stone in 1882-3, near the site of a former church.
- The turret of the church was struck by lightning in 1908.
- The church seats about 150.
- There is a photograph of St. Martin's church on the Wendy Parkinson Church Photos web site.
- Here is a photo of St. Martin's Church, taken by Ron Cole (who retains the copyright):
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1576.
- The Lincolnshire FHS has published several Marriage indexes and a Burial index for the Louthesk Deanery to make your search easier.
- Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.
- The parish was in the Louth sub-district of the Louth Registration District.
- Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which began in July, 1837.
Withcall is both a village and a parish about 140 miles north of London and about 4.5 miles south-west of Louth. The parish covers about 2,600 acres.
The village is in the Lincolnshire Wolds. If you are planning a visit:
- Rail passenger service to the village ceased in November, 1951. There is a well-preserved rail tunnel near the old sation platform.
- Visit our touring page for more sources.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Withcall to another place.
- Gordon HATTON has a photograph of the Deserted Medieval Village of Withcall on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2019.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF284840 (Lat/Lon: 53.337536, -0.073042), Withcall which are provided by:
- OpenStreetMap
- Google Maps
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Old Maps Online
- National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.
Adrian S. PYE has a photograph of the Memorial to the Great Northern Railway on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2020.
- This place was an ancient parish in county Lincoln and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
- The parish was in the Wold Division of the ancient Louth Eske Wapentake in the East Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
- For today's district governance, see the East Lindsey District Council.
- Bastardy cases would be heard in the Louth Petty Session hearings.
- After the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act reforms, the parish became part of the Louth Poorlaw Union.
- A Public Elementary School was first built in 1876 by N. CLAYTON. It was enlarged in 1889 to hold up to 60 children.
- See our Schools page for more information on researching school records.