Ropsley, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Ropsley, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, on the main line of the G.N.R. The village stands 5 miles NE of Great Ponton station, and 6 ESE of Grantham, and has a post and money order office under Grantham; telegraph office, Grantham. The parish contains also the hamlet of Little Humby. Acreage, 3061; population of the civil parish, 597; of the ecclesiastical, 715. The manor belongs to the Duke of Rutland, who is chief landowner. The living is a rectory, with Little Humby annexed, in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £400 with residence. Patron, the Duke of Rutland. The church is an ancient edifice of stone, chiefly in the Norman and Early English styles, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch, and a western tower with broach spire; it has an ancient tomb of the 14th century. There are a Wesleyan chapel, an endowed school with £12 a year, and 25 acres of townland. Bishop Fox, the founder of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and of the Free Grammar School ate Grantham, was a native.
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 | Ropsley St. Peter | |
Poor Law union | Grantham | |
Wapentake | Winnibriggs and Threo |
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 Ropsley:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1558-1911 | 1760-1766 | 1561-1911 | 1558-1911 |
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 Ropsley from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Ropsley (St. Peter))
Maps
Online maps of Ropsley 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: