Hameringham, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Hameringham, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, 4 miles ESE from Horncastle station on the G.N.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Horncastle. Acreage of the civil parish, 1238; population, 144; of the ecclesiastical, with Scrafield, 182. The manor belongs to the Coltman family. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Scrafield, in the diocese of Lincoln; joint gross yearly value, £370. The church was restored in 1894. There are Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan 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 | Hameringham All Saints | |
Hundred | Hill | |
Poor Law union | Horncastle |
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 Hameringham:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1777-1911 | 1763-1770 | 1760-1837 | 1777-1911 |
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 Hameringham from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Hameringham (All Saints))
Maps
Online maps of Hameringham 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: