Grainthorpe, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Grainthorpe, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire. The village stands near the coast, 6 miles E of Ludborough station on the G.N.R., and 8 NE by N of Louth, and has a post office tinder Grimsby; money order and telegraph office, Marshchapel. The parish includes also the hamlets of Ludney and Wragholme. Acreage, 4387; population of the civil parish, 627; of the ecclesiastical, 619. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; gross yearly value, £210 with residence. Patron, Magdalene College, Cambridge. The church is Later English and good, consists of nave, chancel, and aisles, and has a western tower with crocketed pinnacles. There are Wesleyan, Primitive Methodist, and Free Methodist chapels.
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 | Grainthorpe St. Clement | |
Hundred | Louth-Eske | |
Poor Law union | Louth |
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 Grainthorpe:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1661-1911 | 1699-1911 | 1653-1911 |
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 Grainthorpe from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Grainthorpe (St. Clement))
Maps
Online maps of Grainthorpe 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
Villages, Hamlets, &c
LudneyWragholme