East Wykeham

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:

• 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.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• 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.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1801	23
1831	31
1841	32
1871	30
1881	37
1891	30
1901	36
1911	34

• There is no record of a school in this parish.
   
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.