Beelsby, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Beelsby, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, 6 miles E of Caistor, and 5½ W of Waltham station on the G.N.R. Great Grimsby is the post town; money order and telegraph office, Waltham. Acreage, 2248; population, 190. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; net yearly value, about £260 with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Manchester. The church was restored in 1890. It contains some good arches of the 13th century.
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 | Beelsby St. Andrew | |
Poor Law union | Caistor | |
Wapentake | Bradley-Haverstoe |
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 Beelsby:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1559-1911 | 1756-1756 | 1566-1911 | 1559-1911 |
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 Beelsby from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Beelsby (St. Andrew))
Maps
Online maps of Beelsby 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: