Gunby St Nicholas, Lincolnshire

Historical Description

Gunby St Nicholas, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, on the SW verge of the county, 6 miles SW from Corby station on the G.N.R., and 10 S from Grantham. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Colsterworth, under Grantham. Acreage of the civil parish, 1008; population, 162; of the ecclesiastical, with Stainby, 233. The manor belongs to the Dysarts. The living is a rectory, annexed to the rectory of Stainby, in the diocese of Lincoln; joint net yearly value, £450 with residence. The church, which is a building of stone in the Early English style, comprises nave and chancel, with Later English tower.

Administration

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

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Church Records

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Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Gunby St Nicholas from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Gunby (St. Nicholas))

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