Martin (Timberland), Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Martin, a township and an ecclesiastical parish formed out of Timberland parish, Lincolnshire, on Martin Drain, 4 miles SW of Kirkstead station on the Lincoln and Boston branch of the G.N.R., 4 SE of Metheringham station on the G.N. and G.E. Joint railway, and 6½ WNW of Tattershall. There is a post office under Lincoln; money order and telegraph office, Metheringham. Acreage of township, 3777; population, 777. The parish council, under the Local Government Act, 1894, consists of seven members. The manor belongs to the trustees of the Eev J. W. King. Martin Drain runs to the river Witham, and gives navigation to the general canal system of the county and to the sea at Boston. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £183, in the gift of the Bishop of Lincoln. The church, erected in 1876, is a building of stone in the Gothic style. An iron church was erected in 1891 as a chapel of ease to the parish church. 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 | |
Civil parish | Timberland | |
Poor Law union | Sleaford | |
Wapentake | Langoe |
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 Martin By Timberland:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1876-1911 | 1877-1911 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Martin (Timberland) from the following:
Newspapers and Periodicals
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