Habrough or Haburgh, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Habrough or Haburgh, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire. The village occupies the site of a Roman settlement, adjacent to the M.S. & L.R., 8 miles WNW from Great Grimsby, is irregularly built, and has a station on the railway. The parish comprises 1622 acres; population, 343. It has a post office under Ulceby; money order and telegraph office, Ulceby. The manor belongs to the Earl of Yarborough, D.L., J.P. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Rillingholrne, in the diocese of Lincoln; joint net value, £276 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Yarborough. The church, rebuilt in 1869, is a building of stone in a modern Gothic style. There are Wesleyan and Primitive 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 | Habrough St. Margaret | |
Poor Law union | Caistor | |
Wapentake | Yarborough |
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 Habrough:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1538-1911 | 1754-1784 | 1538-1836 | 1538-1911 |
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 Habrough or Haburgh from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Habrough (St. Margaret))
Maps
Online maps of Habrough or Haburgh 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: