Bolingbroke, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Bolingbroke, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire. The village stands 3½ miles W by S of Spilsby station on the G.N.R., and 7½ SE of Horncastle, and has a post and money order office under Spilsby; telegraph office, East Kirkby. It gives the title of Viscount to the family of St John. Acreage of the parish, 1031; population of civil parish, 397; of ecclesiastical, including Hareby, 444. A castle was built here by William de Romara, Earl of Lincoln, was enlarged in the time of Queen Elizabeth, and was the focus of several struggles in the civil wars of Charles I., but was dismantled by the Parliamentarians, and only a few fragments of it remain. Henry IV. was born in this castle, and hence was called Henry of Bolingbroke. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Hareby, in the diocese of Lincoln; joint net yearly value, £330 with residence. The church, an ancient building in the Early English style, was beautifully restored in 1889 at a cost of £3000. There is 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 | Bolingbroke St. Peter and St. Paul | |
Hundred | Soke of Bolingbroke | |
Poor Law union | Spilsby |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
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 Bolingbroke from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Bolingbroke (St. Peter and St. Paul))
Maps
Online maps of Bolingbroke 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: