Hemingby, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Hemingby, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, on the river Bain, 4 miles NNW from Horncastle station on theG.N.R. Post town, Homcastle; money order and telegraph office, Banmber. Acreage, 2306; population, 401. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; net yearly value, £385. Patron, King's College, Cambridge. The church is plain but good, and consists of nave and chancel, with a tower. There are a Wesleyan chapel, an endowed free school, four endowed almshouses, and a small charity which is distributed in fuel.
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 | Hemingby St. Margaret | |
Poor Law union | Horncastle | |
Wapentake | Gartree |
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 Hemingby:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1578-1872 | 1656-1801 | 1579-1911 | 1578-1910 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Hemingby from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Hemingby (St. Margaret))
Maps
Online maps of Hemingby 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: