Carlton Scroop, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Carlton-Scroop, a parish in Lincolnshire, on a branch of the river Witham, 1 mile NE from Honington station on the G.N.R., and 6 miles NNE of Grantham, under which it has a post office; money order office, Caythorpe; telegraph office, Honington. Acreage, 1372; population of the civil parish, 231; of the ecclesiastical, 374. Carlton-Scroop Hall is a chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln, with that of Normanton annexed; joint net value, £400 with residence. The church is a building of stone partly in the Norman style, and there is a small Wesleyan chapel.
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 | Carlton-Scroop St. Nicholas | |
Poor Law union | Grantham | |
Wapentake | Loveden |
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 Carlton Scroop:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1557-1911 | 1763-1763 | 1560-1836 | 1558-1812 |
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 Carlton Scroop from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Carlton-Scroop (St. Nicholas))
Maps
Online maps of Carlton Scroop 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: