Beckingham, Lincolnshire

Historical Description

Beckingham, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, o— the river Witham, 3½ miles N of Claypole station on the-G.N.R., and 5 E of Newark. The parish includes the hamlet of Sutton, and has a post office under Newark, which is the telegraph office; money order office, Brant Broughton. Acreage, 1964; population of the civil parish, 282; of the ecclesiastical, with Stragglethorpe and Fenton, 431. The living is a rectory, united with the perpetual curacies of Stragglethorpe and Fenton, in the diocese of Lincoln; net yearly value, £430 with residence. The church, which is a stone building chiefly of the Perpendicular period, was restored in 1857-58, and again in 1888. There is a Wcsleyan chapel.

Administration

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

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 Beckingham:

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 Beckingham from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Beckingham (All Saints))

Maps

Online maps of Beckingham 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

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