Hough on the Hill, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Hough-on-the-Hill, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire. The village stands on an eminence, 2 miles NW from Hougham station on the G.N.R., and 7¼N from Grantham, is a pleasant place, and has a post office, of the name of Hough, under Grantham; money order and telegraph office, Cay-thorpe. The parish contains also the hamlets of Brandon and Gelston. Acreage, 4028; population, 509. The manor and most of the property belong to Earl Brownlow. An artificial mound near the church bears the name of Castle Hill. Several fine springs, the source of the river Brant, are at the village, and one of them is chalybeate. An Augns-tinian priory, a cell to the abbey of St Mary de Votu at Cher-burgh in Normandy, was founded at Hough about the year 1164, was given by Eichard II. first to the priory ofSpittle-on-the-Street in Lincolnshire, and afterwards to the Chartreuse at Coventry, was restored by Henry IV. to Cherburgh, was transferred by Henry V. to the priory of Montgrace in Yorkshire, and went with that priory, at the Eeformation, to John, Lord Eussell. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £221 with residence. Patron, Earl Brownlow. The church is a building of stone, of the Saxon, Early English, Decorated, and Perpendicular periods; was restored in 1845, consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with fine pinnacled tower, and contains a very ancient font, and two handsome monuments to the Payne family. There area chapel of ease at Brandon, which is an ancient structure, originally Norman, but now chiefly of the Early English period, a Wesleyan Methodist chapel, and an ancient cross at Gelston, an endowed school at Hongh, and some small charities.
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 | Hough-on-the-Hill All Saints | |
Poor Law union | Grantham | |
Wapentake | Loveden |
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 Hough On The Hill:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1651-1859 | 1656-1656 | 1651-1836 | 1651-1895 |
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 Hough on the Hill from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Hough-on-the-Hill (All Saints))
Maps
Online maps of Hough on the Hill 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:
- Grantham Journal
- Grimsby Daily Telegraph
- Lincolnshire Chronicle
- Lincolnshire Echo
- Lincolnshire Free Press
- Louth and North Lincolnshire Advertiser
- Stamford Mercury
Villages, Hamlets, &c
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