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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.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyLincolnshire 
Ecclesiastical parishElsham All Saints 
Poor Law unionGlandford-Brigg 
WapentakeYarborough 

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:

BaptismsBannsMarriagesBurials
1566-18761660-16601566-19111566-1911

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Elsham from the following:


Maps

Online maps of Elsham are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lincolnshire papers online:

CountyNorth Lincolnshire
RegionYorkshire and the Humber
CountryEngland
Postal districtDN20
Post TownBrigg

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