Brothertoft, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Brothertoft, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Kirton civil parish, Lincolnshire, 1 mile SSW of Langrick station on the G.N.R., and 4½ miles WNW of Boston. There is a post office at Brothertoft; money order office, Boston; telegraph office, Langrick Ferry. Acreage of the township, 1835; population, 235; of the ecclesiastical parish, 125. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net yearly value, £172. The church is a small building of stone in the Early English style, rebuilt about the middle of the 19th century, formerly belonged to Sempringham Abbey. Brothertoft Hall is a chief residence. There is a charity worth about £40 a year.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Lincolnshire | |
Civil parish | Kirton | |
Poor Law union | Boston | |
Wapentake | Kirton |
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 Brothertoft:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1682-1911 | 1764-1783 | 1708-1911 | 1683-1911 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Brothertoft from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Brothertoft)
Maps
Online maps of Brothertoft 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: