Calcethorpe, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Calcethorpe, a parish in Lincolnshire, 6 miles W by N of Louth station on the G.N.R. Post town and telegraph office, Louth; money order office, Ludford. Acreage, 1103; population, 89. The living is a sinecure rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; value, £60. The church is in ruins.
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 | Calcethorpe St. Faith | |
Hundred | Louth-Eske | |
Poor Law union | Louth |
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 Calcethorpe from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Calcethorpe (St. Faith))
Maps
Online maps of Calcethorpe 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: