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Brocklesby (with Limber Parva)

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 a stone building dedicated to All Saints.
  
  
• The church was restored in 1852.
  
  
• The church seats about 160.
  
  
• A photograph of the Anglican parish church is at the Wendy Parkinson English Church Photographs site.
  
  
• Here is a photograph of All Saints Church supplied by Ron Cole (who retains the copyright):
  
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish registers date from 1538 (Some sources give 1672).
  
  
• There is a great deal of material about Brocklesby held in the records of the Lincolnshire Archives. They put out a useful CD, which apart from a listing of Wills (some of which are for residents of Brocklesby), includes contents of the Foster library. The CD references this item in the Archives: CW Foster "Parish Register of Brocklesby 1538-1837". [Antony Barber]
  
  
• The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Yarborough Deanery to make your search easier.
  
  
• 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

Brocklesby is a village and a parish about 7 miles north of Caistor and 10 miles west of Grimsby. The parish includes the hamlet of Little Limber, Newsham and Nun Cotham. The parish covers over 3,930 acres.

If you plan to visit:

• Peter Fairweather has a site with information on the village and its church.
  
  
• See the Lincolnshire Touring and Holidays page on this site.
  
  

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Manors

• Brocklesby Hall was listed in 1913 as "a noble mansion" with many fine pieces of art. The east wing was destroyed by fire in 1898 and subsequently rebuilt
  
  

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Maps

• The national grid reference is TA 1311.
  
  
• 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 ancient Yarborough Wapentake in the West Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
  
  
• Kelly's 1913 Directory of Lincolnshire places the parish, perhaps erroneously, in the North Lindsey division of the county.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became part of the Caistor Poor Law Union.
  
  

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Population

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Schools

• The children of this parish attended school in Limber.
  
  
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.
  
  

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