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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.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyLincolnshire 
Ecclesiastical parishBarlings St. Edward 
Poor Law unionLincoln 
WapentakeLawress 

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:

BaptismsBannsMarriagesBurials
1627-18761762-17621626-18421626-1911

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:


Maps

Online maps of Barlings are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lincolnshire papers online:

DistrictWest Lindsey
CountyLincolnshire
RegionEast Midlands
CountryEngland
Postal districtLN3
Post TownLincoln

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