Donington, Lincolnshire

Historical Description

Donington, an ancient market-town and parish, in Lincolnshire. The town stands amid the fens, at the Bridgend Causeway, adjacent to the Hammond-beck and Blacksluice Canal, and has a station on the Spalding and Doncaster extension of the Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint railways, 10 miles NNW from Spalding. It comprises three principal streets, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Spalding, a weekly market on Thursday, and fairs on 26 May, 4 Sept., and 17 Oct. The parish includes also the hamlet of Northorpe. Acreage, 5835; population, 1547. Much of the surface was formerly marsh, but has been well drained and cultivated. The living is a vicarage and rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; net yearly value, £270, in the gift of Simeon's trustees. The church is a fine edifice of stone in the Early English and Later styles, and in a very good state of preservation. There are also Baptist, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan chapels. The town has some endowed schools and several small charities. Park House is a fine mansion of stone standing in extensive grounds, and is the seat of the Gleed family.

Church Records

Findmypast, in conjunction with the Lincolnshire Archives, have the following parish records online for Donington In Holland:

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Maps

Online maps of Donington 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:

• Grantham Journal
• Grimsby Daily Telegraph
• Lincolnshire Chronicle
• Lincolnshire Echo
• Lincolnshire Free Press
• Louth and North Lincolnshire Advertiser
• Stamford Mercury

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