Willingham Cherry, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Willingham Cherry, a parish in Lincolnshire, near Washingborough station on the G.N.R., and 3½ miles E by N of Lincoln. Post town, Lincoln. Acreage, 1030; population of the civil parish, 119; of the ecclesiastical, 123. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £111. The church is in the Grecian 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 | Cherry Willingham St. Peter | |
Poor Law union | Lincoln | |
Wapentake | Lawress |
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 Cherry Willingham:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1662-1911 | 1756-1777 | 1662-1911 | 1663-1911 |
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 Willingham Cherry from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Willingham, Cherry (St. Peter))
Maps
Online maps of Willingham Cherry 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: