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.
Ancient County | Lincolnshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Fleet St. Mary Magdalene | |
Hundred | Elloe | |
Poor Law union | Holbeach |
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:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1652-1911 | 1656-1911 | 1657-1904 |
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: