Greetham, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Greetham, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, 3j½ miles ENE from Horncastle town and station on the G.N.R. Post town and½ money order and telegraph office, Horncastle. Acreage, 1280; population, 131. The land lies comparatively high, and commands extensive views. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; gross value, £211 with residence, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln. The church is a small plain building of stone.
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 | Greetham All Saints | |
Hundred | Hill | |
Poor Law union | Horncastle |
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 Greetham:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1655-1911 | 1826-1826 | 1670-1836 | 1659-1911 |
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 Greetham from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Greetham (All Saints))
Maps
Online maps of Greetham 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:
- Grantham Journal
- Grimsby Daily Telegraph
- Lincolnshire Chronicle
- Lincolnshire Echo
- Lincolnshire Free Press
- Louth and North Lincolnshire Advertiser
- Stamford Mercury
Parochial History
On Aug. 8, 1901, the ecclesiastical parishes of Greetham and Ashby Puerorum were united by Order in Council.