Bucknall, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Bucknall, a parish in Lincolnshire, on an affluent of the river Witham, 2½ miles NE from Stixwould station on the G.N.R., and 6½ W of Horncastle. It has a post office under Lincoln; money order office, Bardney; telegraph office, Southrey (R.S.) Acreage, 2543; population, 331. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; net yearly value, £170 with residence. The church is a building of stone in the Early English style, and there are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels. The parish is under the jurisdiction of the Commissioners for Draining Fen Lands.
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 | Bucknall St. Margaret | |
Poor Law union | Horncastle | |
Wapentake | Gartree |
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 Bucknall:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1708-1895 | 1755-1814 | 1709-1911 | 1709-1910 |
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 Bucknall from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Bucknall (St. Margaret))
Maps
Online maps of Bucknall 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: