Brauncewell, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Brauncewell, a parish in Lincolnshire, 3 miles WNW from Ruskington station on the G.E. & G.N. Joint railway, and 5 NNW from Sleaford. Post town, Lincoln; money order and telegraph office, Wellingore. Acreage, 2682; population of the civil parish, 148; of the ecclesiastical, with Anwick, 422. The living is a rectory, united with the vicarage of Anwick, in the diocese of Lincoln; gross value, £780 with residence. The church is a building of stone in the Early English style. Dunsby St Andrew is a hamlet 1½ mile SW. It was formerly a parish, and the parish of Brauncewell was at one time designated Brauncewell-with-Dunsby.
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 | Brauncewell All Saints | |
Poor Law union | Sleaford | |
Wapentake | Flaxwell |
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 Brauncewell:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1626-1911 | 1800-1855 | 1627-1911 | 1626-1911 |
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 Brauncewell from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Brauncewell (All Saints))
Maps
Online maps of Brauncewell 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: