Ewerby, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Ewerby, a village, formerly a market-town, and a parish in Lincolnshire, near the Sleaford Canal, 3¼ miles E by N from Sleaford, and 3½ from Heckington station on the G.N.R. The parish contains the hamlet of Ewerhy Thorpe, and has a post office under Sleaford; money older and telegraph office, Heckington. Acreage, 2923; population of the civil parish, 384; of the ecclesiastical, 408. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £170 with residence. Patron, the Countess of Winchilsea. The church is a building the architectural features of which belong to the Geometrical Decorated Period, with a western tower and lofty spire. There is a Primitive Methodist 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 | Ewerby St. Andrew | |
Poor Law union | Sleaford | |
Wapentake | Aswardhurn |
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 Ewerby:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1765-1911 | 1755-1783 | 1755-1911 | 1765-1911 |
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 Ewerby from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Ewerby (St. Andrew))
Maps
Online maps of Ewerby 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: