Orby, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Orby, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire. The village stands 1½ mile NE of Burgh station on the East Lincolnshire section of the G.N.R., and 6 miles E by N of Spilsby. It has a post office under Burgh (R.S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Burgh. Acreage of parish, 2051; population of the civil parish, 304; of the ecclesiastical, 311. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The manor and part of the land belong to the Ogilvie and Walls families, the remainder to a number of small freeholders. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; gross value, £200 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Lincoln, The church, a building of freestone in the Perpendicular style, was built about the end of the 13th century by a prior of Thomholm; had its chancel rebuilt by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in 1888; consists of nave, S aisle, and chancel, with an embattled western tower; and contains an ancient octagonal font There is a Wesleyan chapel.
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 | Orby All Saints | |
Poor Law union | Spilsby | |
Wapentake | Candleshoe |
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 Orby:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1726-1911 | 1768-1792 | 1726-1911 | 1726-1911 |
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 Orby from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Orby (All Saints))
Maps
Online maps of Orby 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: