Scothern or Scothorne, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Scothern or Scothorne, a parish, with a village, in Lincolnshire, 2½ miles W by N of Langworth station on the Hull and Lincoln branch of the M.S. & L.R., and 5½ NE of Lincoln. It has a post and money order office under Lincoln; telegraph office, Langworth railway station. Acreage, 2445; population, 425. The manor belongs to the Sibthorpe family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £110 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Scarborough. The church, rebuilt in 1861, is an edifice of stone partly in the Early Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, N aisle, and an embattled western tower. There are Free Methodist and Wesleyan chapels, and some small charities.
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 | Scothern St. German | |
Poor Law union | Lincoln | |
Wapentake | Lawress |
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 Scothern:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1630-1911 | 1777-1779 | 1631-1844 | 1647-1891 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Scothern or Scothorne from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Scothern (St. German))
Maps
Online maps of Scothern or Scothorne 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: