Fosdyke, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Fosdyke, a parish in Lincolnshire, on the Welland, which is here spanned by a bridge, 2 miles S of Algarkirk and Sutterton station on the East Lincolnshire branch of the G.N.R., and 7¼ S by W of Boston. It has a post office under Boston; money order and telegraph office, Sutterton. Acreage, 2046; population, 433. Fosdyke Wash is 7 miles lower down. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the rectory of Algarkirk, in the diocese of Lincoln; net yearly value, —£250 with residence. The church, a building of red brick in the Early English style, was erected in 1871-72. There is a coastguard station. Middlecotte's almshouses for ten old people have about £200, and there are some other charities.
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 | Fosdyke All Saints | |
Poor Law union | Boston | |
Wapentake | Kirton |
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 Fosdyke:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1559-1911 | 1754-1773 | 1560-1911 | 1559-1911 |
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 Fosdyke from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Fosdyke (All Saints))
Maps
Online maps of Fosdyke 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: