Belchford or Belshford, Lincolnshire

Historical Description

Belchford or Belshford, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, on the Wolds, 4¼ miles NNE of Homcastle station on the G.N.R. The parish has a post and money order office under Homcastle, which is the telegraph office. Acreage, 2542; population, 403. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; gross yearly value, £425 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is a building of stone in the Early English style, and there are Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels.

Administration

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

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 Belchford:

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 Belchford or Belshford from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Belshford (St. Peter and St. Paul))

Maps

Online maps of Belchford or Belshford 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