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Surfleet, Lincolnshire

Historical Description

Surfleet, a parish in Lincolnshire, on the river Glen and on the East Lincolnshire section of the G.N.R., 4 miles N by E of Spalding. It has a station on the railway and a post office under Spalding; money order office, Pinchbeck; telegraph office, Surfleet (R.S.) Acreage, 4082; population of the civil parish, 979; of the ecclesiastical, 975. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. Cressy Hall is a chief residence. A small trade in coals and stone is carried on. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; gross value, £112. The church is a building of stone in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles. The foundations have sunk so much in the soft soil that the spire is much out of the perpendicular and the W door considerably below ground. It contains the cross-legged effigy of a knight in armour, said to represent one of the Cressys of Cressy Hall. There are Baptist, Free Methodist, and Wesleyan chapels, and charities worth about £100 a year.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyLincolnshire 
Ecclesiastical parishSurfleet St. Lawrence 
Poor Law unionSpalding 
WapentakeKirton 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Church Records

The Phillimore transcript of Marriages at Surfleet 1562-1812, Lincolnshire is available to browse online.

Findmypast, in conjunction with the Lincolnshire Archives, have the following parish records online for Surfleet:

BaptismsBannsMarriagesBurials
1662-19111765-18001662-19111665-1812

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 Surfleet from the following:


Maps

Online maps of Surfleet are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lincolnshire papers online:

DistrictSouth Holland
CountyLincolnshire
RegionEast Midlands
CountryEngland
Postal districtPE11
Post TownSpalding

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