Croxton

The Brigg Library is an excellent resource with a Local History section.

• The parish was in the Brigg sub-district of the Glanford Brigg Registration District.
   
• Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known (contributed by Keith DOREY):

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint John the Evangelist.
   
• The church was built in the 13th century. The present building may be the second church built on this site.
   
• The church was restored about 1878 and seats 90 people.
   
• There is a photograph of the Anglican parish church on the Wendy PARKINSON Church Photos web site.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of St. John's Church on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2006.
   
• Here is a photograph St. John's Church supplied by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1562.
   
• There is a monument in the churchyard to Joseph WILSON who died between the first and second Boer Wars. We do not believe this is a war monument.
   
• 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.

• The parish was in the Brigg sub-district of the Glanford Brigg Registration District.
   
• Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which began in July, 1837.

Croxton (or Cruxton) is located about 165 miles north of London and 7 miles north-east of Brigg. Ulceby parish is to the north-east. The parish covers just over 1,500 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• The village and parish are just a mile north of the Humberside International Airport.
   
• By automobile, take the M180 motorway east out of Brigg or the A180 trunk road west out of Grimsby.
   
• Visit our touring page for more sources.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Croxton to another place.

• "Yarborough Camp" is a large entrenchment on an elevation near the village. Roman coins have been found on the spot.
   
• In 1930 a large part of the parish was woodland.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TA094124 (Lat/Lon: 53.596763, -0.348422), Croxton 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.

• This place was an ancient parish in Lincolnshire and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• For governance, the parish was in the ancient Yarborough Wapentake in the Glanford (or North Lindsey) district in the parts of Lindsey.
   
• Croxton and Kirmington have a joint Parish Council which you may contact regarding civic or political issues. They are NOT staffed to do family history searches for you.
   
• For today's district governance, see the North Lincolnshire Council website.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Brigg petty session hearings.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, this parish became part of the Glanford Brigg Poor Law Union.

Year	Inhabitants
1801	123
1811	86
1821	87
1831	103
1841	105
1871	124
1881	120
1891	96
1901	118
1911	119

• The children of the parish attended school at Kirmington.
   
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.