Revesby, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Revesby, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire. The village stands 6 miles S by E of Horncastle station on the Lincoln and Boston branch of the G.N.R., and has a post and money order office under Boston; telegraph office, Mareham-le-Fen. The parish contains also the hamlets of Medlam and Moorhouses. Acreage, 4462; population of the civil parish, 516; of the ecclesiastical, 473. The manor, with Revesby Abbey, a fine mansion of stone in the Elizabethan style standing in a deer-park of 330 acres, belongs to the Stanhope family. A Cistercian abbey was founded here in 1142 by William de Romara, was given at the dissolution to the Duke of Suffolk, and passed to the Bankses and the Stanhopes. The abbot's house was the seat of Sir Joseph Banks. There is an ancient camp, engirt with a wide fosse, and measuring 300 feet by 100, and at each end of it is a tumulus 100 feet in diameter. The navigation goes from the parish to Boston. The living is a vicarage, with Moor-house attached, in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £252. The church was rebuilt in 1891, and is a fine building of stone in the Flamboyant style, consisting of chancel, nave, N aisle, vestry, S porch, and a western tower. There is a chapel of ease at Moorhouses. There are almshouses with £50 a year. The school was built in 1858 at a cost of about £1000, and is in the Tudor style.
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 | Revesby St. Lawrence | |
Poor Law union | Horncastle |
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 Revesby:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1595-1911 | 1755-1761 | 1595-1837 | 1595-1911 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Revesby from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Revesby (St. Lawrence))
Maps
Online maps of Revesby 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:
- Grantham Journal
- Grimsby Daily Telegraph
- Lincolnshire Chronicle
- Lincolnshire Echo
- Lincolnshire Free Press
- Louth and North Lincolnshire Advertiser
- Stamford Mercury
Villages, Hamlets, &c
MedlamMoorhouses
Tumby Wood