Aswardby, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Aswardby, a parish in Lincolnshire, on the river Steeping, 4 miles NW of Spilsby railway station. Post town, Spilsby, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 744; population, 89. The living is a rectory, with which the rectory of Sansthorpe was consolidated in 1882, in the diocese of Lincoln; joint gross yearly value, £454. The church is a small building of brick and stone consisting of nave only. There is also 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 | Aswardby St. Helen | |
Hundred | Hill | |
Poor Law union | Spilsby |
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 Aswardby:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1760-1812 | 1754-1754 | 1789-1836 | 1759-1811 |
Churches
Church of England
St. Helen (parish church)
The church of St. Helen is a small edifice of stone and brick, consisting of nave and a western turret containing one bell; it was repaired and decorated in 1884 at the cost of the patron, and has 50 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 Aswardby from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Aswardby (St. Helen))
Maps
Online maps of Aswardby 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: