Pickworth, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Pickworth, a parish in Lincolnshire, 2 miles W of Falkingham, 5 W of Billingborongh station on the Bourn and Sleaford branch of the G.N.R., and 9 E of Grantham. It has a post office under Falkingham; money order and telegraph office, Falkingham. Acreage, 1474; population, 231. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £250 with residence. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Early English style. 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 | Pickworth St. Andrew | |
Poor Law union | Grantham | |
Wapentake | Aveland |
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 Pickworth:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1538-1911 | 1655-1655 | 1538-1911 | 1538-1911 |
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 Pickworth from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Pickworth (St. Andrew))
Maps
Online maps of Pickworth 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: