North Willingham, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Willingham, North, a parish in Lincolnshire, 3½ miles E by S of Market Rasen station on the M.S. & L.R. It has a post office under Market Rasen; money order and telegraph office, Hainton. Acreage, 2332; population, 172. Willingham Hall is the chief residence. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; gross value, £75. The church, excepting the tower, is modern.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Lincolnshire | |
Poor Law union | Caistor | |
Wapentake | Walshcroft |
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 North Willingham:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1660-1911 | 1754-1757 | 1658-1911 | 1658-1812 |
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 North Willingham from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Willingham, North)
Maps
Online maps of North Willingham 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: