North Cockerington, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Cockerington, North, a parish in Lincolnshire, 2 miles NNW from Grimoldy station on the G.N.R., and 3½ NE of Louth. It has a post office under Louth; money order and telegraph office, Louth. Acreage, 1750; population, 210. The manor belonged to the Scropes, three of whom were Adrian the regicide. Sir Adrian the Royalist, and Sir Can-the poet. The living is a vicarage annexed to the vicarage of Alvingham in the diocese of Lincoln. Of the church which formerly existed no traces now remain. There are Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels.
Church Records
Findmypast, in conjunction with the Lincolnshire Archives, have the following parish records online for North Cockerington:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1645-1677 | 1645-1909 | 1646-1911 |
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Maps
Online maps of North Cockerington 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: