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Willingham, North, par., Lincolnshire - par., 1,990 ac., pop. 211; vil., 3½ miles E. of Market Rasen; P.O.; in vicinity is Willingham House, seat.
From: John BARTHOLOMEW's "Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887)"
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The Caistor Library is an excellent resource with a Local History section and a Family History section.
Alternatively, you can use the Market Rasen Community Library as a resource, 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 table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
Census Year | Piece No. |
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1841 | H.O. 107 / 649 |
1851 | H.O. 107 / 2115 |
1861 | R.G. 9 / 2396 |
1871 | R.G. 10 / 3426 |
1891 | R.G. 12 / 2624 |
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Thomas the Apostle.
- The church was rebuilt in 1777.
- The interior of the church was restored in 1896.
- The church seats 140.
- David WRIGHT has a photograph of St. Thomas Church on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2006.
- Here is a photo of St. Thomas Church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1658.
- The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Westwold Deanery to make your search easier.
- 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.
This village and parish are on the road between Louth and Market Rasen. The parish covers just under 2,000 acres. Tealby parish is to the north and Sixhills parish is to the south.
If you are planning a visit:
- By automobile, take the A631 arterial road east out of Market Rasen or west out of Louth.
- See our touring page for more sources.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from North Willingham to another place.
- Willingham House, the seat of the BOUCHERETT family, was built in 1790 about 1.5 miles west of the old hall. The Hall stands in 80 acres of well-wooded land.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF162884 (Lat/Lon: 53.379591, -0.255089), North Willingham 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 Lincoln county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
- The parish was in the southern division of the ancient Walshcroft Wapentake in the West Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
- Kelly's 1900 Directory of Lincolnshire places the parish, perhaps erroneously, in the East Lindsey district of the county.
- Today's district governance is provided by the West Lindsey District Council.
- Bastardy cases would be heard on the 1st Tuesday each month at the Market Rasen petty session hearings.
- As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, the parish became part of the Caistor Poor Law Union.
- The parish school was built in 1845 by Ayscoghe BOUCHERETT. (Some records give a "build" date of 1850.)
- For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.