Dunston, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Dunston, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, on a branch of the river Witham, near Duns Dyke, with a station called Nocton and Dunston on the G.N. & G.E. Joint railway, 8 miles SE by S from Lincoln, and a post office under Lincoln; money order and telegraph office, Metheringham. Acreage, 3372; population, 652. Much of the land, novi-inclosed and cultivated, was formerly a dismal waste, and a pillar, 92 feet high, close to the public road through it, was erected in 1751 as a landmark. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; yearly value, £222 with residence. The church is a building of stone in the Gothic style, and there are Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Reform chapels.
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 | Dunston St. Peter | |
Poor Law union | Lincoln | |
Wapentake | Langoe |
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 Dunston:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1564-1895 | 1587-1911 | 1564-1905 |
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 Dunston from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Dunston (St. Peter))
Maps
Online maps of Dunston 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: