Hackthorn, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Hackthorn, a parish in Lincolnshire, near Ermine Street, 8 miles N by E from Lincoln, which is the nearest railway station. It has a post office under Lincoln; money order office, Ingham; telegraph office, Welton. Acreage, 2748; population of the civil parish, 280; of the ecclesiastical, with Cold Hanworth, 361. The manor, with Hackthorn Hall, belongs to the Cracroft family. The living is a vicarage, united with the rectory of Cold Hanworth, in the diocese of Lincoln; joint gross yearly value, £253 with residence. The church is a building of stone in the Early Decorated style.
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 | Hackthorn St. Michael | |
Poor Law union | Lincoln | |
Wapentake | Aslacoe |
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 Hackthorn:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1653-1911 | 1755-1810 | 1654-1911 | 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 Hackthorn from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Hackthorn (St. Michael))
Maps
Online maps of Hackthorn 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: