Eastville, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Eastville, a parochial township in Lincolnshire, on the East Lincoln branch of the G.N.R., near Bellwater Drain, 7½ miles S from Spilsby. It has a railway station, and a post and money order office at New Leake, under Boston; telegraph office, the railway station. Acreage, 2749; population of the township, 342; of the ecclesiastical parish, 1197. The surface is fenny. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net yearly value, £287, in the gift of the Bishop of Lincoln. The church is a modern building of brick. New Leake, a portion of the parish of Leake, is for ecclesiastical purposes included in Eastville. The parochial township of Midville is also for ecclesiastical purposes consolidated with Eastville.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Lincolnshire | |
Poor Law union | Spilsby |
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 Eastville:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Eastville from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (East-Ville)
Maps
Online maps of Eastville 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: