Hatcliffe, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Hatcliffe, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, 4½ miles WSW from Waltham station on the G.N.R., and 8 SW from Great Grimsby. The parish includes Gonerby hamlet, and has a post office under Grimsby; money order and telegraph office, Waltham. Acreage, 1395; population, 180. The manor belongs to the Coates family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; net yearly value, £220 with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Manchester. The church is plain but very good, and has a tower. There is a 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 | Hatcliffe St. Mary | |
Poor Law union | Caistor | |
Wapentake | Bradley-Haverstoe |
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 Hatcliffe:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1695-1908 | 1754-1792 | 1696-1911 | 1695-1911 |
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 Hatcliffe from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Hatcliffe (St. Mary))
Maps
Online maps of Hatcliffe 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