Baston, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Baston, a village and a large parish in Lincolnshire, 3½ miles NNW of Market-Deeping, and 2½ NW from Thurlby station on the G.N.R., with a post and money order office under Market-Deeping, which is the telegraph office. Acreage, 2514; population, 656. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £206 with residence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor. The church is an ancient building of stone. There is a Wesleyan chapel and a few small charities.
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 | Baston St. John the Baptist | |
Poor Law union | Bourne | |
Wapentake | Ness |
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 Baston:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
---|---|---|---|
1558-1911 | 1756-1772 | 1558-1911 | 1558-1908 |
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 Baston from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Baston (St. John the Baptist))
Maps
Online maps of Baston 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:
- Grantham Journal
- Grimsby Daily Telegraph
- Lincolnshire Chronicle
- Lincolnshire Echo
- Lincolnshire Free Press
- Louth and North Lincolnshire Advertiser
- Stamford Mercury