Immingham, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Immingham, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire. The village stands 2 miles from the Humber, 2 NE of Habrough station on the M.S. & L.K., and 7½ NW by W from Great Grimsby. The parish contains also the hamlet of Boston, and extends to the Hnmber. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Ulceby. Acreage, 4130; population, 262. The manor belongs to the Earl of Yar-borough. A brook forms at its month a small haven with a salmon fishery. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £132. Patrons, the Earl of Yarborough and others. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Perpendicular style. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels.
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 | Imingham St. Andrew | |
Poor Law union | Caistor | |
Wapentake | Yarborough |
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 Immingham:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1563-1911 | 1653-1771 | 1563-1911 | 1563-1911 |
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 Immingham from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Imingham (St. Andrew))
Maps
Online maps of Immingham 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