Wilsthorpe, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Wilsthorpe, a parish in Lincolnshire, 2 miles from Brace-borough Spa station on the G.N.R., and 6 NE of Stamford. Post town, Stamford. Acreage, 909; population of the township, 84; of the ecclesiastical district, with Greatford, 266. The living is annexed to Greatford. The church is a substantial building of stone in the Early English style.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Lincolnshire | |
Civil parish | Greatford | |
Poor Law union | Stamford | |
Wapentake | Ness |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
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 Wilsthorpe from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Wilsthorpe)
Maps
Online maps of Wilsthorpe 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: