Blankney, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Blankney, a parish in Lincolnshire, 1 mile S of Blankney station on the Spalding and Doncaster joint extension of the G.N.R. and G.E.R., 9 miles N of Sleaford and 10 from Lincoln. It includes the hamlet of Linwood, and has a post office under Lincoln; money order and telegraph office, Metheringham. Acreage, 6781; population, 627. Blankney Hall is a fine mansion of stone. The saloon is hung with magnificent tapestry of great value. It is now the seat of the Chaplin family, and in connection with it there is a famous stud of thoroughbred horses. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; net yearly value, £540 with residence. The church, a Gothic building of stone, was restored in 1880.
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 | Blankney St. Oswald | |
Poor Law union | Sleaford | |
Wapentake | Langoe |
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 Blankney:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1560-1911 | 1761-1792 | 1560-1911 | 1558-1911 |
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 Blankney from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Blankney, or Blackney (St. Oswald))
Maps
Online maps of Blankney 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