Dembleby, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Dembleby, a parish in Lincolnshire, 3½ miles SW from Scredington station on the G.N.R., and 9¼ E from Grantham. Post town, Folkingham; money order and telegraph office, Osboumby. Acreage, 1101; population, 55. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; net yearly value, £170. The church was rebuilt in 1868. There is a limestone quarry..
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 | Dembleby St. Lucia | |
Poor Law union | Sleaford | |
Wapentake | Aswardhurn |
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 Dembleby:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1763-1911 | 1795-1911 | 1767-1911 | 1765-1911 |
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 Dembleby from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Dembleby (St. Lucia))
Maps
Online maps of Dembleby 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: