Southorpe

The Gainsborough Library is an excellent resource with both a Local History section and a Family History section.

Alternatively, the Libraries at Scunthorpe also have a Local History section.

• The parish was in the Scotter sub-district of the Gainsborough Registration District.
   
• Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:

• There was no church here in the late 1800s or early 1900s. The locals used the church in Northorpe.

• Check the Manlake Deanery to see what LFHS indexes exist.
   
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.

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

Southorpe is a parish and hamlet about 150 miles north of London, about 7 miles north-east of Gainsborough, 2 miles south-west of Northorpe and 2 miles east of Bylton. Grayingham parish lies to the east and Corringham parish to the south. A small parish in area, it covers only about 467 acres. Southorpe parish was once an extra-parochial portion of Northorpe parish.

The hamlet of Southorpe has virtually disappeared. The only thing at Southorpe now is the boarding kennels which are in the old railway crossing house. If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A159 trunk road north-east out of Gainsborough and turn east onto the B1205 arterial. Follow that for about 2.5 miles and you will be in the heart of the parish.
   
• Visit our touring page for more sources.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK885952 (Lat/Lon: 53.446455, -0.668879), Southorpe 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.

• The formerly extra-parochial parish was made into a civil parish some time between 1858 and 1872.
   
• The parish was in the ancient Corringham Wapentake in the West Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
   
• In April, 1936, this parish was abolished and the land amalgamated into Northorpe Civil Parish.
   
• Today's district governance is provided by the West Lindsey District Council.

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

Year	Inhabitants
1086	80
1801	26
1831	36
1851	43
1861	44
1871	48
1881	39
1891	44
1901	43
1911	41
1921	35

• The children of this parish attended school in Northorpe.
   
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.