Glentworth, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Glentworth, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, on the Wolds, 7 miles E of Lea station on the G.E.R. & G.N.R., and 8 ESE of Gainsborough, with a post and money order office under Lincoln; telegraph office, Ingham. Acreage, 3128; population, 316. The property belongs to the Eail of Scarborough. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net yearly value, £265 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Scarborough. The church is good, and contains a monument of Lord Chief Justice Wray, of the time of Elizabeth. There is a Free Methodist 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 | Glentworth St. Michael | |
Poor Law union | Gainsborough | |
Wapentake | Aslacoe |
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 Glentworth:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1586-1911 | 1586-1911 | 1586-1911 |
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 Glentworth from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Glentworth (St. Michael))
Maps
Online maps of Glentworth 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: