Digby, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Digby, a parish in Lincolnshire, on a rivulet called Digby Beck, 6 miles N by W from Sleaford. It has a station on the Spalding and Doncaster extension of the G.N.R. and G.E.R., and a post office under Lincoln; money order and telegraph office, Ruskington. Acreage, 2494; population, 344. The living is a vicarage, united with the rectory of Bloxhoime, in the diocese of Lincoln; joint gross yearly value, £342 with residence. The church is Early English,. with pinnacled tower and crocketed spire, and has a fine Norman entrance and embattled walls. A fine cross is near the church. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
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 | Digby St. Thomas à Becket | |
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 Digby:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1679-1907 | 1679-1837 | 1679-1911 |
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 Digby from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Digby (St. Thomas à Becket))
Maps
Online maps of Digby 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: