Claypole, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Claypole, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire. The parish lies on the river Witham and the G.N.R., contiguous to Notts, 4½ miles SE of Newark, and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Newark; money order office, Balderton; telegraph office, Claypole station. Acreage, '2915; population, 593. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; gross yearly value, £400 with residence. The church is a fine structure of various character, with tower and spire. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels. The Newark workhouse is here.
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 | Claypole St. Peter | |
Poor Law union | Newark | |
Wapentake | Loveden |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The Phillimore transcript of Marriages at Claypole 1538-1837, Lincolnshire is available to browse online.
Findmypast, in conjunction with the Lincolnshire Archives, have the following parish records online for Claypole:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1538-1873 | 1756-1787 | 1538-1837 | 1593-1906 |
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 Claypole from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Claypole (St. Peter))
Maps
Online maps of Claypole 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: