Braceborough, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Braceborough, a parish in Lincolnshire, on the river Glen, and on the Bourne and Essendine branch of the G.N.R., with a station 1 mile N of the village, 3 miles NE of Essendine, and 3½ SW of Bourne. It includes Shillingthorpe hamlet, and has a post office under Stamford; money order office, Greatford; telegraph office, Essendine (R.S.) Acreage, 1767; population, 174. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £147 with residence. Patron, the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln. The church is a building of stone in the Early Decorated style. Braceborough Spa, which has a useful mineral spring, is 1 mile to the NE.
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 | Braceborough St. Margaret | |
Poor Law union | Stamford | |
Wapentake | Ness |
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 Braceborough:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1593-1812 | 1754-1792 | 1593-1911 | 1593-1812 |
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 Braceborough from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Braceborough, or Braceburgh (St. Margaret))
Maps
Online maps of Braceborough 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: