Waddingham, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Waddingham, a parish, with a village, in Lincolnshire, 4 miles SB of Kirton Lindsey station on the M.S. & L.R. It has a post office under Kirton Lindsey; money order office, Redbourn; telegraph office, Kirton Lindsey. Acreage, 3752; population, 610. Brandy Wharf, on the Ancholme navigation, carries on some inland commerce. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £570 with residence. Patron, the Crown. The church is a building of stone in the Perpendicular style, and has been restored. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels, a reading-room, and an endowed school.
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 | Caistor | |
| Wapentake | Manley |
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 Waddingham:
| Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1654-1842 | 1755-1790 | 1654-1911 | 1654-1911 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Waddingham from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Wadingham)
Maps
Online maps of Waddingham 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: