Billinghay, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Billinghay, a village, a township, and a parish in Lincoln. The parish lies on Billinghay Skirth, 3½ miles WSW of Tattershall station on the G.N.R., and 9½ NE of Sleaford. It includes part of the township of Dogdyke, and the hamlet of Walcot, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Lincoln, Acreage, 3671; population of the civil parish, 1315; of the ecclesiastical, including Dogdyke and Walcot, 2027. Billinghay Skirth is a cut, 5 miles long, from the Sleaford Canal to the river Witham. The living is a vicarage, united with the perpetual curacy of Walcot and Dogdyke, in the diocese of Lincoln; net yearly value, £330 with residence. Patron, Earl Fitzwilliam. The church, dedicated to St Michael, is of oolite stone in the Early English and Perpendicular style. It consists of chancel, nave, and side aisles, south porch, and tower surmounted by a spire. There are Baptist, Wesleyan, and Primitive Methodist chapels. Walcot is a township and parochial chapelry, 2 miles to the NW. It has a church, erected in 1852, and a small Wesleyan chapel. Dogdyke will be found under a separate head.
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 | Billinghay St. Michael | |
Poor Law union | Sleaford | |
Wapentake | Langoe |
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 Billinghay:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1567-1911 | 1754-1795 | 1567-1911 | 1567-1911 |
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 Billinghay from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Billinghay (St. Michael))
Maps
Online maps of Billinghay 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: