Navenby, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Navenby, a small town and a parish in Lincolnshire. The town stands near Ermine Street, 2½ miles E of the river Brant, and 9 S of Lincoln, has a station on the Lincoln and Grantham branch of the G.N.R.; was formerly a market-town with an ancient cross, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Lincoln, and a statute fair for servants in May, and a fair principally for swine on 17 Oct. It formerly had also a pleasure fair on the Thursday before Easter, but this has been discontinued. The parish comprises 2110 acres; population, 803. The area extends to the river Brant, and is diversified by the South Cliff Hills, which command an extensive view. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £564 with residence. Patron, Christ's College, Cambridge. The church is a large and handsome building of stone in the Transitional, Early English, and Early and Late Decorated styles. It consists of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch, and a western tower. It has a beautiful six-light E window and a finely-carved Easter sepulchre. It was partly restored in 1859-60 and again in 1875-76. There is a Wesleyan chapel. The town estate produces about £115 a year, which is devoted to charitable and educational uses.
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 | Navenby St. Peter | |
Poor Law union | Lincoln | |
Wapentake | Boothby-Graffo |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The Phillimore transcript of Marriages at Navenby 1562-1837, Lincolnshire is available to browse online.
Findmypast, in conjunction with the Lincolnshire Archives, have the following parish records online for Navenby:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1681-1911 | 1754-1801 | 1681-1911 | 1681-1908 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Navenby from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Navenby (St. Peter))
Maps
Online maps of Navenby 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: