Legbourne, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Legbourne, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire. The village stands 3 miles SE of Louth, and has a station on the East Lincolnshire section of the G.N.R. It has a post office under Lonth; money order and telegraph office, Loutb. Acreage, 2365; population, 464. A neat modern mansion, called the Abbey, occupies the site of a Cistercian nunnery which was founded by Robert Fitz-Gilbert before the time of King John, and which has left no vestiges. Kenwick Hall is a large mansion standing amidst beautiful grounds. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, o£96 with residence. The church, which is a plain building of stone in the Decorated style, consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with a tower; contains a small ancient piscina, seven stained windows, and a carved oak rood screen. There are Wesleyan, Primitive Methodist, and Free 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 | Legbourn All Saints | |
Hundred | Calceworth | |
Poor Law union | Louth |
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 Legbourne:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1711-1868 | 1765-1765 | 1711-1837 | 1711-1911 |
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 Legbourne from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Legbourn (All Saints))
Maps
Online maps of Legbourne 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: