Coningsby, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Coningsby, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, on the rivers Bain (Horncastle Canal) and Witham, adjacent to the Boston and Lincoln branch of the G.N.R., 1½ mile NE from Tattershall station, and 8 miles SSW from Horncastle, with a post, money order, and telegraph office under Lincoln. Acreage, 3727; population, 1186. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; net yearly value, £360 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Ancaster. The church is an ancient building of sandstone and Lincoln stone in the Early English and Later styles, and there are Baptist, Wesleyan Methodist, and Primitive Methodist chapels. Eusden the poet-laureate, and Dyer, the author of the " Fleece," were rectors.
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 | Coningsby St. Michael | |
Hundred | Soke of Horncastle | |
Poor Law union | Horncastle |
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 Coningsby:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1561-1911 | 1757-1799 | 1561-1911 | 1561-1907 |
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 Coningsby from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Coningsby (St. Michael))
Maps
Online maps of Coningsby 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: