Barnetby le Wold, Lincolnshire

Historical Description

Barnetby-le-Wold, a parish in Lincolnshire, on the Manchester and Lincolnshire railway, 3½ miles NE of Brigg. It has a station of the name of Barnethy on the railway, and a post and telegraph office (R.S.O.) Acreage, 2584; population of the civil parish, 926; of the ecclesiastical, 821. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £321 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Lincoln. The church is Early English, and there are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

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Church Records

Findmypast, in conjunction with the Lincolnshire Archives, have the following parish records online for Barnetby Le Wold:

Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Barnetby le Wold from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Barnet-By-The-Wold (St. Mary))

Maps

Online maps of Barnetby le Wold 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:

• Grantham Journal
• Grimsby Daily Telegraph
• Lincolnshire Chronicle
• Lincolnshire Echo
• Lincolnshire Free Press
• Louth and North Lincolnshire Advertiser
• Stamford Mercury