East Barkwith, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Barkwith, East, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, 3¼ miles NE of Wragby on the G.N.R. There is a post office under Lincoln, which is tho telegraph office; money order office, Hainton. Acreage, 1325; population, 323. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £317 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln. The church is good, and there are Wesleyan and Free Methodist chapels.
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 | East Barkwith St. Mary | |
Poor Law union | Horncastle | |
Wapentake | Wraggoe |
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 East Barkwith:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1695-1911 | 1776-1787 | 1695-1911 | 1695-1911 |
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 East Barkwith from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Barkwith, East (St. Mary))
Maps
Online maps of East Barkwith 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: