Market Stainton, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Market Stainton, a parish in Lincolnshire, 2 miles SE from Donington station on the Lincoln and Louth sectionof the G.N.R., and 8 N by W from Horncastle. It was once a market-town, and had a yearly fair, but the market long ago became obsolete, and the fair was sold and removed to Horncastle in 1768. Post town and money order office, Lincoln; telegraph office, Donnington station. Acreage, 1204; population, 123. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; gross value, £77. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Decorated style.
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 | Market Stainton St. Michael | |
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 Market Stainton:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1689-1911 | 1690-1836 | 1689-1910 |
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 Market Stainton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Stainton, Market (St. Michael))
Maps
Online maps of Market Stainton 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: