Doddington Pigot, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Doddington, a village, a township, and a parish in Lincolnshire. The village stands near the boundary with Notts, 2½ miles N from Thorpe station on the M.R., and 5¼W by S of Lincoln. The parish includes also the township of Whisby, and its post town is Lincoln; money order office, Lincoln; telegraph office, Thorpe railway station. Acreage of the township, 1600; population, 86; acreage of the parish, 2527; population of the civil parish, 147; of the ecclesiastical, 233. Doddington Hall, a Tudor mansion, is a seat of the Jarvis family The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; net yearly value, £200. The church, a building of stone in the Decorated style, has a tower and spire and is good.
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 | Doddington St. Peter | |
Poor Law union | Lincoln | |
Wapentake | Boothby-Graffo |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The Phillimore transcript of Marriages at Doddington Pigot 1562-1837, Lincolnshire is available to browse online.
Findmypast, in conjunction with the Lincolnshire Archives, have the following parish records online for Doddington Pigot:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1690-1911 | 1690-1911 | 1690-1911 |
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 Doddington Pigot from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Doddington (St. Peter))
Maps
Online maps of Doddington Pigot 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: