Claxby (Well), Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Claxby St Andrew, a parish in Lincolnshire, three-fourths of a mile W of Willoughby station on the G.N.R., and 3 miles S of Alford. Post town, Alford; money order and telegraph office, Willoughby. Acreage, 1087; population, 87. Three sides of an ancient rectangular camp, probably Roman, and tumuli crowned with trees are here, and limestone is found. The living is a vicarage annexed to the rectory of Well in the diocese of Lincoln. The church is a building of brick in the Norman style.
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 | Claxby St. Andrew | |
Hundred | Calceworth | |
Poor Law union | Spilsby |
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 Claxby By Alford:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1699-1911 | 1754-1754 | 1699-1910 | 1699-1911 |
Civil Registration
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Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Claxby (Well) from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Claxby (St. Andrew))
Newspapers and Periodicals
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