Candlesby, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Candlesby, a parish in Lincolnshire, 2 miles WNW of Burgh station on the G.N.R., and 3½ ENE of Spilsby. It has a post office under Burgh (R.S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Partney. Acreage, 1061; population, 236. Candlesby Hall is a chief residence. Several pieces of old armour and weapons have been found here. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; gross yearly value, £208 with residence, in the gift of Magdalen College, Oxford. The church is a modern edifice of brick.
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 | Candlesby St. Benedict | |
Poor Law union | Spilsby | |
Wapentake | Candleshoe |
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 Candlesby:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1745-1911 | 1755-1837 | 1755-1812 |
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 Candlesby from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Candlesby (St. Benedict))
Maps
Online maps of Candlesby 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: