Scredington, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Scredington, a village and a small parish in Lincolnshire. The village stands near the Bourn and Sleaford branch of the G.N.R., on which it has a station, called Aswarby and Scredington, 3½ miles SE by S of Sleaford. Post town, Falkingham; money order and telegraph office, Osbourneby. The parish contains also the hamlets of Northbeck, Neafold Hill, Hambledon, and Highgate. Acreage, 2634; population, 319. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £186 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln. The church is a small but ancient edifice of stone in the Early English style. There are a Wesleyan chapel 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 | Scredington St. Andrew | |
Poor Law union | Sleaford | |
Wapentake | Aswardhurn |
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 Scredington:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1738-1911 | 1763-1776 | 1738-1911 | 1738-1911 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Scredington from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Scredington (St. Andrew))
Maps
Online maps of Scredington 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