Barlings, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Barlings, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, 6 miles ENE of Lincoln, and 2 SE from Langworth station on the M.S. & L.R. It includes the hamlet of Langworth. Acreage, 1686; population, 419. There is a post office at Langworth, under Lincoln; telegraph office, Langworth station; money order office, Scotherne. A Premonstratensian abbey wa& founded in 1154 at Barling-Grange, and afterwards re-founded at Oxeney, and was given at the dissolution to Charles, Duke of Suffolk. The last abbot of it, Dr Mackerel, was executed at Tybum in 1537 for heading the Lincoln insurrection against the Crown. Only a few mutilated pillars of the edifice now remain. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net yearly value, £85 with residence. The church is a small building of stone in the Norman and Early English styles.
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 | Barlings St. Edward | |
Poor Law union | Lincoln | |
Wapentake | Lawress |
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 Barlings:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1627-1876 | 1762-1762 | 1626-1842 | 1626-1911 |
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 Barlings from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Barlings (St. Edward))
Maps
Online maps of Barlings 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: