Blyborough, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Blyborough, a parish in Lincolnshire, 3½ miles S of Kirton-in-Lindsey station on the M.S. & L.R., and 9 ENE of Gainsborough. It has a post office under Kirton-in-Lindsey (R.S.O.), which is the telegraph office; money order office, Willoughton. Acreage, 2446; population, 213. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; net yearly value, £360 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church was rebuilt in 1877, and is a building of stone in the Early English style. Blyborough Hall is a chief residence.
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 | Blyborough St. Alkmond | |
Poor Law union | Gainsborough | |
Wapentake | Aslacoe |
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 Blyborough:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1784-1911 | 1758-1777 | 1758-1836 | 1784-1911 |
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 Blyborough from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Blyborough (St. Alkmond))
Maps
Online maps of Blyborough 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