Amberhill, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Amberhill, a parish in Holland Fen, Lincolnshire, 4 miles from Hubbert's Bridge station on the G.N.R., and 7 W from Boston, under which it has a post office; money order office, Swineshead; telegraph office, Hubbert's Bridge railway station. Acreage, 5439; population, 562. This parish was formed in 1880 by the union of Algarkirk Fen allotment, Sutterton Fen allotment, and a detached portion of the township of Dogdyke, the name of Amberhill having previously been given to an extra parochial tract of some 30 acres.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Maps
Online maps of Amberhill 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: