Bytham Castle, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Bytham-Castle, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire. The village stands on the river Glen, 2 miles "W by N of Little Bytham railway station on the G.N.R., and 5 S of Corby, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Grantham. Area of parish, 4080 acres; population, 815. The manor was given by William the Conqueror to his brother-in-law Odo, Earl of Albemarle, and passed to the Colvilles. An ancient castle stood on it, and was burned by Edward III., and afterwards rebuilt. The earthworks of this are still in a tolerable state of preservation. The living is a discharged vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net yearly value, £220 with residence, in the gift of the Bishop and Dean and Chapter of Lincoln alternately. The church, which stands on an eminence, is an ancient cruciform building of stone, with a fine E window, and a Norman doorway ornamented with beakheads. There is also a Wesleyan chapel, which was enlarged in 1866.
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 | Castle Bytham St. James | |
Poor Law union | Bourne | |
Wapentake | Beltisloe |
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 Castle Bytham:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1567-1885 | 1758-1779 | 1567-1837 | 1567-1909 |
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 Bytham Castle from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Bytham, Castle (St. James))
Maps
Online maps of Bytham Castle 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: