Clee, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Clee, a parish in Lincolnshire, consisting of the village of Clee, the township of Cleethorpes, which is noticed separately, and the hamlets of Thrunscoe, Weelsby, and New Cleethorpes. Clee is about 2 miles SE from Great Grimsby, on the southern shore of the Humber and German Ocean. It has a station at Cleethorpes on the M.S. & L.R., and a post, money order, and telegraph office, also at Cleethorpes, under Great Grimsby. The living is a rectory, with Cleethorpes and Weelsby annexed, in the diocese of Lincoln; joint net yearly value, £396. Patron, the Bishop of Lincoln. The church is a cruciform building of stone of the Saxon and Early Norman periods. Weelsby House is a chief residence. Area of the whole parish, 3596 acres of land and 1199 of tidal water; population, 10,311.
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 | Clee Holy Trinity | |
Poor Law union | Caistor | |
Wapentake | Bradley-Haverstoe |
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 Clee from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Clee (Holy Trinity))
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lincolnshire papers online:
- Grantham Journal
- Grimsby Daily Telegraph
- Lincolnshire Chronicle
- Lincolnshire Echo
- Lincolnshire Free Press
- Louth and North Lincolnshire Advertiser
- Stamford Mercury
Villages, Hamlets, &c
ThrunscoeWeelsby