Scamblesby

• The parish was in the Horncastle sub-district of the Horncastle Registration District.
• We have an extract of a small portion of the 1901 surname index which you are welcome to review or add to.
• Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Martin.
• The church was partially rebuilt in the 1890s.
• The church seats 100.
• There is a photograph of St. Martin's Church on the Wendy PARKINSON English Church Photo web site.
• Tim HEATON has a photograph of St. Martin's Church on Geo-graph, taken in 2011.
• Here is a photo of Saint Martin's Church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):

• The parish register dates from 1569.
• The LFHS has published several marriage indexes for the Horncastle Deanery to make your search easier.
• The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here, as did the Primitive Methodists. For information and assistance in researching these chapels, see our non-conformist religions page.
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.

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

Scamblesby is both a village and a parish in the Wolds, seven miles southwest of Louth and six miles north of Horncastle. Belchford parish lies to the south and Cawkwell parish to the north. The parish covers about 2,000 acres.

The village of Scamblesby is on the Louth to Horncastle Road (now the A153). A small stream runs through the village on its way to join the River Bain. If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, the village is 10 minutes outside of Louth on the A153.
• Tony ATKIN has a nice photograph of Scamblesby village on Geo-graph, taken in 2005.
• Stop in at Scamblesby Village Hall and check the scheduled activities, classes and events.
• Visit our touring page for more sources.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF270785 (Lat/Lon: 53.288258, -0.096299), Scamblesby 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 Chapelry in Lincoln county and it became a modern Civil Parish shortly after those were established.
• The parish was in the northern division of the ancient Gartree Wapentake in the East Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
• You may contact the Scamblesby with Cawkwell Parish Council regarding civic or political issues, but they are NOT staffed to do family history lookups for you.
• For today's district governance, see the East Lindsey District Council.

• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, the parish became part of the Horncastle Poor Law Union.
• Bastardy cases would be heard at the Horncastle petty session hearings.

Year	Inhabitants
1801	272
1811	300
1821	347
1831	413
1841	500
1851	532
1871	461
1881	364
1891	325
1911	245

• A Council School was built here in 1849 for up to 69 children. The school is now the Scamblesby Church of England Primary School.
• The school has a Web site, but no history is published.
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.