East Firsby, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Firsby, East, a township and a parish in Lincolnshire. The township lies on the Wolds, 6½ miles W of Market Rasen station on the M.S. & L.R. The parish contains also the township of West Firsby, and its post town is Lincoln, via Spridlington; money order office, Normanby; telegraph office, Market Rasen. Acreage of township, 544; population, 18. The living is a rectory, annexed to the vicarage of Saxby, in the diocese of Lincoln. There is no church.
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 Firsby St. James | |
Poor Law union | Lincoln | |
Wapentake | Aslacoe |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
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 Firsby from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Firsby, East (St. James))
Maps
Online maps of East Firsby 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: