Fenton, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Fenton, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, near the-river Witham, 2 miles ENE of Claypole station on the G.N.R., and 6 SE by E of Newark. Post town and telegraph office, Newark; money order office, Claypole. Acreage, 1231; population, 76. Fenton Hall, once the seat of the Lucases, is now a farmhouse. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed with that of Stragglethorpe to the rectory of Beckingham, in the diocese of Lincoln. The church is a-building of stone, chiefly in the Decorated and Perpendicular-styles.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Lincolnshire | |
Poor Law union | Newark | |
Wapentake | Loveden |
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 Fenton:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1545-1812 | 1755-1802 | 1539-1836 | 1543-1812 |
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 Fenton from the following:
Maps
Online maps of Fenton 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: