Blyton, Lincolnshire

Historical Description

Blyton, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire. The village stands near the M.S. & L.E., 4½ miles NE of Gainsborough, and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Gainsborough, which is the telegraph office; money order office, Morton. The parish includes also the hamlet of Wharton. Acreage, 4705; population, 747. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £312 with residence. The church, an ancient building of stone in the Early English style, was restored in 1880. There are Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels.

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 Blyton:

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 Blyton from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Blyton (St. Martin))

Maps

Online maps of Blyton 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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