Cabourn, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Cabourn, a parish in Lincolnshire, 1½ mile ENE of Caistor, and 4½ miles ENE of Moortown station on the M.S. & L.R. Post town, Caistor, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 2927; population, 139. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; gross yearly value, £190 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Yarborough. The church, an Early Norman building of stone, was restored and improved in 1872.
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 | Cabourn St. Nicholas | |
Poor Law union | Caistor | |
Wapentake | Bradley-Haverstoe |
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 Cabourne:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1561-1911 | 1757-1764 | 1564-1911 | 1566-1911 |
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 Cabourn from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Cabourn (St. Nicholas))
Maps
Online maps of Cabourn 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: