Elsham, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Elsham or Aylesham, a parish, with a station on the M.S. & L.R., in Lincolnshire, on the Wolds, 4¼ miles NE of Glanford Brigg. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office (R.S.O., Lincolnshire). Area of the parish, 4154 acres; population, 457. Elsham Hall is a modern mansion of brick standing in a park of 150 acres. An Augus-tinian priory was founded at Elsham in the 12th century by Beatrice de Amundeville. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £95 with residence. The church is a building of stone in the Early English style, and there is a small Wesleyan chapel.
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 | Elsham All Saints | |
Poor Law union | Glandford-Brigg | |
Wapentake | Yarborough |
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 Elsham:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1566-1876 | 1660-1660 | 1566-1911 | 1566-1911 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Elsham from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Elsham (All Saints))
Maps
Online maps of Elsham 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: