Stainfield, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Stainfield, a parish in Lincolnshire, 2½ miles N by W of Bardney Junction station on the Lincoln and Boston branch of the G.N.R., and 9 E by S of Lincoln. Post town and money order office, Wragby; telegraph office, Bardney. Acreage, 2102; population, 167. The manor belongs to the Drake family. A Benedictine nunnery was founded in the time of Henry II. by Henry Percy. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; gross value, £77. The church was rebuilt in 1711, and is a building of brick and stone consisting of nave and bell-turret only.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Lincolnshire | |
Poor Law union | Lincoln | |
Wapentake | Wraggoe |
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 Stainfield:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1680-1911 | 1771-1771 | 1685-1911 | 1680-1812 |
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 Stainfield from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Stainfield)
Maps
Online maps of Stainfield 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: