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The Library at Louth will prove useful in your research.
- The parish was in the Binbrook 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. |
---|---|
1851 | H.O. 107 / 2112 |
1861 | R.G. 9 / 2384 |
1871 | R.G. 10 / 3405 |
1891 | R.G. 12 / 2609 |
- The Anglican parish church has been in ruins since the time of Henry VIII. But burials were held in the ruins as late as 1876.
- Kate NICOL has a photograph of the ruins of East Wykham church at Geo-graph, taken in October, 2009.
- It is not clear if this parish was ever assigned to a Deanery as it had no functional church.
- The most likely source for indexes to marriages and burials are the LFHS indexes for the Louth Eske Deanery.
- Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.
- The parish was in the Binbrook sub-district of the Louth Registration District.
- Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which began in July, 1837.
East Wykeham is a parish 7 miles north-west of Louth, 8 miles east of Market Rasen and south of Binbrook parish. The parish is in the Wold Hills and covers about 534 acres.
If you are planning a visit:
- The medieval village is gone.
- By automobile, take the A631 between Louth and Gainsborough. East Wykeham is just south of where the B1225 crosses the A631.
- See our touring page for more sources.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from East Wykeham to another place.
- Chris ? has an aerial photograph of East Wykeham DMV (deserted Medieval village) on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2019.
- Ian PATERSON has a photograph of East Wykeham Medieval Village on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2008.
- The CHILD family had a long association with this parish.
- Wykeham Hall is an ancient mansion which was restored in 1870 by G. B. CHILD.
- James Alexander MANBY was resident of the Hall in 1909.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF228884 (Lat/Lon: 53.378188, -0.155435), East Wykeham 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.
- East Wykeham was formerly an extra-parochial parcel. It was considered a hamlet in Ludford parish. By 1842 it had become a parish consisting of one farm.
- The parish was in the ancient Wraggoe Wapentake in the East Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
- In the 1800s, the parish was in the Wold Division of the ancient Louth Eske Wapentake.
- For today's district governance, see the East Lindsey Govt. Council.
- Bastardy cases would be heard in the Louth petty session hearings.
- After the 1834 Poor Law reforms, the parish was in the Louth Poorlaw Union.
- There is no record of a school in this parish.
- For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.