Lenton, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Lenton, a village, a township, and a parish in Lincolnshire, 6 miles NE from Corby Station on the G.N.R., and 9½ SE from Grantham. Post town, Grantham; money order and telegraph office, Falkingham. The parish includes the hamlet of Hanby and the townships of Keisby and Osgodby, Acreage, 4265; population, 242. The living is a vicarage, with the rectory of Hanby annexed, in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £400 with residence, in the gift of the Earl of An-caster. The church is an ancient building of stone, consisting of chancel, nave, south aisle, south porch, and a tower with broach spire. It contains a fine and elaborate monument to Sir William Armyne, Bart., of Osgodby Hall (d. 1651) and his wife. The manors of Lenton and Osgodby belong to the Earl of Ancaster, and those of Hanby and Keisby to the Earl of Dysart.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Nottinghamshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Lenton Holy Trinity | |
Poor Law union | Radford | |
Wapentake | Broxtow |
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 Lenton:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1576-1911 | 1754-1842 | 1576-1838 | 1576-1911 |
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 Lenton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Lenton (Holy Trinity))
Maps
Online maps of Lenton 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