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Metheringham, Lincolnshire

Historical Description

Metheringham, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire. The village stands 6 miles WSW of Stixwould, and 9 SE of Lincoln, and has a station, called Blankney and Metheringham, on the Great Eastern and Great Northern Joint line from Spalding to Doncaster. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Lincoln. The parish contains also the hamlet of Tanvats. Acreage, 5899; population, 1614. The parish council, under the Local Government Act, 1894, consists of eleven members. The manor belongs to the Chaplin family. Metheringham drain goes hence to the river Witham. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; gross value, £391 with residence. Patron, the Marquis of Bristol. The church is a large and ancient building of stone in the Norman and Gothic styles of the 13th and 16th centuries; consists of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch, and an embattled western tower of the 12th century, and contains some ancient mural tablets and a vault of the Skipwith family. There is a mission room on the Heath and another at Tanvats. There are Primitive Methodist, Reformed Methodist, and Wesleyan chapels, and there is also a Wesleyan chapel at Tanvats.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyLincolnshire 
Ecclesiastical parishMetheringham St. Wilfrid 
Poor Law unionLincoln 
WapentakeLangoe 

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 Metheringham:

BaptismsBannsMarriagesBurials
1538-1911 1538-19111538-1911

Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

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Maps

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Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lincolnshire papers online:

DistrictNorth Kesteven
CountyLincolnshire
RegionEast Midlands
CountryEngland
Postal districtLN4
Post TownLincoln

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