Fleet, Lincolnshire

Historical Description

Fleet, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire. The villatge has a station on the Lynn branch of the G.N.R., and is 2 miles ESE of Holbeach. It has a post and money order office under Holbeach; telegraph office, Holbeach. The parish comprises 6836 acres; population of the civil parish, 1200; of the ecclesiastical, 966, inclusive of 161 inmates of Holbeach union workhouse, which is in the parish. Many copper coins of Gallienus and other relics have been found. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; net yearly value, £840 with residence. The church is ancient but goody and an embattled tower with lofty spire stands apart from it. There is a General Baptist chapel.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Church Records

The Phillimore transcript of Marriages at Fleet 1656-1812, Lincolnshire is available to browse online.

Findmypast, in conjunction with the Lincolnshire Archives, have the following parish records online for Fleet:

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 Fleet from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Fleet (St. Mary Magdalene))

Maps

Online maps of Fleet 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:

• Grantham Journal
• Grimsby Daily Telegraph
• Lincolnshire Chronicle
• Lincolnshire Echo
• Lincolnshire Free Press
• Louth and North Lincolnshire Advertiser
• Stamford Mercury