South Thoresby, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Thoresby, South, a parish in Lincolnshire, 2 miles from Aby station on the G.N.R., and 3½ WNW of Alford. It has a post office under Alford; money order and telegraph office, Alford. Acreage, 952; population, 139. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £175 with residence. Patron, the Duchy of Lancaster. The church is a small structure of brick, and was erected in 1738. There is a Wesleyan chapel. A trout stream, called the " Withern Eau," runs through the parish.
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 | South Thoresby St. Andrew | |
Hundred | Calceworth | |
Poor Law union | Louth |
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 South Thoresby:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1662-1911 | 1662-1911 | 1661-1911 |
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 South Thoresby from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Thoresby, South (St. Andrew))
Maps
Online maps of South Thoresby 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: