Crosby, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Crosby, a township in Flixborough and Frodingham parishes, Lincolnshire, 7½ miles E of Crowle. Acreage, 3181; population, 366. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel here. Ironstone is worked.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Lincolnshire | |
Civil parish | Flixborough | |
Poor Law union | Glandford-Brigg | |
Wapentake | Manley |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Crosby from the following:
Maps
Online maps of Crosby 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: