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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.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

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

Ancient CountyLincolnshire 
Ecclesiastical parishGrainthorpe St. Clement 
HundredLouth-Eske 
Poor Law unionLouth 

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:

BaptismsBannsMarriagesBurials
1661-1911 1699-19111653-1911

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:


Maps

Online maps of Grainthorpe are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lincolnshire papers online:


Villages, Hamlets, &c

Ludney
Wragholme
DistrictEast Lindsey
CountyLincolnshire
RegionEast Midlands
CountryEngland
Postal districtLN11
Post TownLouth

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