Spridlington, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Spridlington, a parish in Lincolnshire, 6 miles W by N of Wickenby station on the Hull and Lincoln branch of the M.S. & L.R., and 9 NNE of Lincoln. It has a post office under Lincoln; money order office, Normanby-by-Spital; telegraph office, Welton. Acreage, 2298; population, 269. The manor belongs to the Nevile family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £269 with residence. The church, erected in 1875 at a cost of about £4000, is a plain rectangular building of stone in the Gothic style. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
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 | Spridlington St. Hilary | |
Poor Law union | Lincoln | |
Wapentake | Aslacoe |
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 Spridlington:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1561-1911 | 1758-1772 | 1561-1911 | 1561-1911 |
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 Spridlington from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Spridlington (St. Hilary))
Maps
Online maps of Spridlington 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: