Walesby
Note: There is a Walesby parish in Nottingham, also.
- The parish was in the Market Rasen sub-district of the Caistor Registration District.
- Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to All Saints.
- There was an "iron church" at Walesby, erected in 1881. It was intended to be a temporary home for the church until that building could be rebuilt. Antony Berber provides this history:
"Apparently the original church of Walesby, All Saints was situated on an eminence. In Kelly's 1896, this church being very dilapidated and inconveniently situated, an iron church has been erected in the village to hold 140 persons and is licensed by the Bishop for divine worship until the restoration or rebuilding, on a new site, of the parish Church. This iron church would be an example of what was often provided as a temporary building or for a congregation that were too poor to pay for a stone or brick one. The iron refers to the corrugated iron with which it was clad. I understand that you could buy these as a kit of parts. Although these were intended to have a short life only, some have survived to the present day and have acquired listed building status.
It was still in use in 1913, but in 1914 a new church of St Mary and All Saints was erected and presumably the old iron one was demolished or sold."
- There is a photograph of All Saints Church on the Wendy Parkinson Church Photos web site.
- Here are two photos of the church, taken by (and copyright of) Ron Cole.
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1562.
- The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Westwold Deanery to make your search easier. At one time there was a Walshcroft deanery to which this church belonged until that deanery was amalgamated with Westwold.
- The Wesleyans had a small chapel here by 1881. For information and assistance in researching this church, see our non-conformist religions page.
- Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.
- The parish was in the Market Rasen sub-district of the Caistor Registration District.
- Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which began in July, 1837.
Walesby is both a village and a parish in the Wold Hills, three miles northeast of Market Rasen and seven miles south of Caistor. Tealby parish lies to the southeast. The parish covers about 3,600 acres and includes the hamlets of Risby and Otby.
If you are planning a visit:
- In 1861 the remains of a Roman villa were discovered here.
- The old manor house was, by 1900, represented by part of an old wall built into a wheelwright's house.
- The national grid reference is TF 1392.
- 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 Walesby is reputedly the origin for the name of the Hundred (Wapentake) within which it lies (Walshcroft). The Domesday Book tells us that the village lies in the "hundred of Walesbi."
- The parish was in the ancient Walshcroft Wapentake in the West Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
- White's 1900 Directory of Lincolnshire places this parish, perhaps erroneously, in the East Lindsey division of the county.
| Year |
Inhabitants |
| 1801 |
167 |
| 1831 |
223 |
| 1871 |
325 |
| 1891 |
305 |
- A school was built here in 1868.
- For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.
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[Last updated: 22-May-2008 - Louis R. Mills]
