Dunsby, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Dunsby, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, on Lincoln Heights, 4¼ miles NNE of Bourn town, and 1 mile S from Rippingale station on the G.N.R., with a post office under Bourn; money order and telegraph office, Rippingale. Acreage, 2671; population, 193. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; net yearly value, o£276 with residence. Patron, the Governors of Charterhouse, London. The church is a building of stone in the Early English and Decorated styles.
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 | Dunsby All Saints | |
Poor Law union | Bourne | |
Wapentake | Aveland |
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 Dunsby:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1538-1812 | 1754-1754 | 1539-1837 | 1540-1812 |
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 Dunsby from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Dunsby (All Saints))
Maps
Online maps of Dunsby 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: