Appleby, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Appleby, a parish in Lincolnshire, 7 miles NNW of Brigg. It includes Raventhorpe hamlet, and has a post and money order office under Doncaster. It has a station on the M.S. & L.R., which is also the telegraph office. Acreage, 5693; population of the civil parish, 584; of the ecclesiastical, 610. Appleby Hall, an ancient mansion here, is the occasional residence of Lord St Oswald. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; gross yearly value, £170, in the gift of Lord St Oswald. The church is a neat structure, with a tower. There are ironworks here, and brickmaking is also carried on.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Lincolnshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Appleby St. Bartholomew | |
Poor Law union | Glandford-Brigg | |
Wapentake | Manley |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Findmypast, in conjunction with the Lincolnshire Archives, have the following parish records online for Appleby:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1579-1911 | 1754-1800 | 1601-1911 | 1576-1901 |
The register dates from the year 1570.
Churches
Church of England
St. Bartholomew (parish church)
The church of St. Bartholomew is an edifice of stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave of three bays, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower with pinnacles containing 6 bells and a clock presented in 1882 by William Coulman Brown, of this parish: the exterior was restored in 1868, and in 1882 the church was new roofed, the nave and tower partly rebuilt and the interior reseated in oak, at a cost of £3,540, chiefly defrayed by the Rev. Canon John Edw. Cross M.A. vicar 1856-91 and Lord St. Oswald: there are 222 sittings.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Appleby from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Appleby (St. Bartholomew))
Maps
Online maps of Appleby are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lincolnshire papers online: