Holdingham, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Holdingham, a township in New Sleaford parish, Lincolnshire, 1½ mile N of Sleaford. Acreage, 1196; population, 89. There was, in the 16th century, a chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary, but of which no traces now remain.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Lincolnshire | |
Civil parish | New Sleaford | |
Hundred | Flaxwell | |
Poor Law union | Sleaford |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Holdingham from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Holdingham)
Maps
Online maps of Holdingham 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: