Heighington, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Heighington, a village and a township in Washingborough parish, Lincolnshire. The village, which stands 4 miles SE from Lincoln, has a station, called Branston and Heighington, on the G.E. and G.N. Joint line from Lincoln to Spalding, and a post office under Lincoln; money order and telegraph office, Branston. Acreage of township, 2962; population, 643. Heighington Hall is a chief residence. There is a chapel of ease, and Wesleyan and Wesleyan Eeform chapels. There is also an endowed grammar school with about £150 a year.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Lincolnshire | |
Civil parish | Washingborough | |
Poor Law union | Lincoln | |
Wapentake | Langoe |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Heighington from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Heighington)
Maps
Online maps of Heighington 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: