Kirkby upon Bain, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Kirkby-upon-Bain, a township and a parish in Lincolnshire. The township lies on the river Bain, 3¼ miles from Woodhall Spa station and 4¼ from Kirkstead station on the G.N.R., and 5½ S by W of Horncastle. There is a post office under Horncastle; money order and telegraph office, Wood-hall Spa. The parish contains also the township of Tumby. Acreage, 5796; population, 652. The manor of Kirkby belongs to the Earl of Fortescue, and that of Tumby to the Hawley family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £300 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church, a building of stone in Debased Gothic style, was rebuilt in 1802, and restored and greatly improved in 1879. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels, and an endowed school with £50 a year.
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 | Kirkby-upon-Bain St. Mary | |
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 Kirkby On Bain:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1562-1880 | 1754-1763 | 1562-1837 | 1562-1898 |
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 Kirkby upon Bain from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Kirkby-Upon-Bain (St. Mary))
Maps
Online maps of Kirkby upon Bain 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: