Utterby, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Utterby, a parish, with a village, in Lincolnshire, 2 miles S of Ludborough station on the G.N.R., and 4½ N by W of Louth. The village lies to the E of the old Roman road now called Barton Street. It has a post office under Louth; money order office, North Thoresby; telegraph office, Louth. Acreage, 1577; population, 258. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £160 with residence. The tower of the church was built about 1340. The nave and chancel are of a late Rectilinear character. The chancel has a piscina, an aumbry, and a statue corbel. There are two Methodist chapels.
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 | Utterby St. Andrew | |
Poor Law union | Louth | |
Wapentake | Ludborough |
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 Utterby:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1695-1911 | 1754-1791 | 1698-1910 | 1695-1911 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Utterby from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Utterby (St. Andrew))
Maps
Online maps of Utterby 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: