Brocklesby, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Brocklesby, a parish in Lincolnshire, 8 miles WNW of Great Grimsby. It has a station on the M.S. & L.R., and includes the hamlet of Little Limber, and it has a post office (S.O.) under Ulceby; money order and telegraph office, Ulceby. Acreage, 3939; population of the civil parish, 282; of the ecclesiastical with Kirmington, 713. Brocklesby Park is the seat of the Earl of Yarborough. The hall has a fine picture gallery, and the grounds have a mausoleum by Wyatt in the form of a Greek temple, with catacombs below. The living is a rectory united with the vicarage of Kirmington in the diocese of Lincoln; joint gross yearly value, £450 with residence. Patron, Lord Yarborough. The church is a beautiful building of stone in the Decorated style.
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 | Brocklesby All Saints | |
Poor Law union | Caistor | |
Wapentake | Yarborough |
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 Brocklesby:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1530-1911 | 1755-1791 | 1530-1911 | 1533-1911 |
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 Brocklesby from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Brocklesby (All Saints))
Maps
Online maps of Brocklesby 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