Althorpe, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Althorpe, a village and a parish in the county of Lincoln, on the river Trent, 5 miles ESE of Crowie, and with a station on the M.S. & L.R. The parish includes the townships of Althorpe and Keadby, and the hamlet of Derrythorpe. Area, 1352 acres; population of the civil parish, 467; of the ecclesiastical, including Keadby, 1059. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; gross yearly value, £350 with residence. Patron, the Crown. The church is of the time of Edward IV. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels. Althorpe enjoys advantages of the Trent navigation. Lansdowne House is a chief residence.
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 | Althorp St. Oswald | |
Poor Law union | Thorne | |
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 Althorpe:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1672-1911 | 1755-1755 | 1671-1911 | 1670-1911 |
The registers date from the year 1670, and include the register of Amcotts previous to 1836.
Churches
Church of England
St. Oswald (parish church)
The church of St. Oswald, erected in 1483, by Sir John Neville kt. of Althorpe, is a fine building of ashlar, in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, south porch and an embattled western tower of three stages, with pinnacles, and containing 3 bells; on the western face of the tower are the arms of Neville, quartering those of Newmarch and Mowbray: there are three sedilia, consisting of crocketed ogee arches, divided by pinnacled buttresses and surmounted by an embattled cresting: at the restoration in 1868 the bench of the sedilia was found to consist of a fine slab of dark marble, into which was inserted a little half-length effigy of a priest vested in a chasuble, of the wide flowing kind used in the Middle Ages, the collar richly diapered with a four-leaved ornament and the bands raised in prayer; the Inscription is as follows:-"Hic Jacet Will's de Lound, quondam clericus cancellarie d'ni Regis, cui a'i'e p'pciet' deus;" this incumbent was presented to the rectory by Joseph Panely, prior of the knights of St. John of Jerusalem; in 1355: the choir seats were presented by Miss Skipworth: the nave was reseated in 1868 and a new organ was erected in 1890: the tower was restored in 1901: the church has 250 sittings.
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 Althorpe from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Althorp (St. Oswald))
Maps
Online maps of Althorpe 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: