Croxby, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Croxby, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, 5½ miles SE by E of Caistor, and 8 W from North Thoresby station on the G.N.R. Post town, Caistor. Acreage, 7640; population, 115. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; net yearly value, £287. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is a small Norman building.
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 | Croxby All Saints | |
Poor Law union | Caistor | |
Wapentake | Walshcroft |
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 Croxby:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1813-1910 | 1760-1760 | 1767-1911 | 1816-1907 |
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 Croxby from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Croxby (All Saints))
Maps
Online maps of Croxby 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: