Burringham, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Burringham, a village and a township in Bottesford parish, Lincolnshire, on the river Trent, 5½ miles NE of Epworth, with a station on the M.S. & L.R., and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Doncaster. Acreage of township, 1553; population, 565. Burringham ranked formerly as a chapelry under the vicarage of Bottesford, but was declared a rectory in 1866, in the diocese of Lincoln, united with Gunhouse under the title of Gunhouse-cum-Burringham; joint yearly value, £419 with residence at Gunhouse, in the gift of the Bishop of Norwich. There is a church, a building of red brick in the Gothic style, which was erected in 1857,. and there are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels.
Maps
Online maps of Burringham 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)