Burton Gate, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Burton-Gate, a parish in Lincolnshire, on the river Trent, 1 mile S from Lea station, and 1 NW from Stow Park station on the Spalding extension of the G.E. & G.N.R. Post town, Lincoln; money order office, Madton; telegraph office, Stew-Park. Acreage, 1114; population, 118. The living is a rectory, united with Knaith, in the diocese of Lincoln; net yearly value, £172 with residence. Gate-Burton Hall is a fine mansion of white brick, very pleasantly situated near the eastern bank of the Trent.
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 | Burton-Gate St. Helen | |
| Poor Law union | Gainsborough | |
| Wapentake | Well |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
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 Burton Gate from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Burton-Gate (St. Helen))
Maps
Online maps of Burton Gate 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: