Howell, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Howell, a parish in Lincolnshire, 1¼ mile NNW from Heckington station on the G.N.R., and 4½ miles N by E from Sleaford. Post town, Sleaford; money order and telegraph office, Heckington. Acreage, 1583; population of the civil parish, 73; of the ecclesiastical, 61. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £102. The church is a small building of stone in the Norman, Early English, and Decorated styles, and contains some very ancient monuments.
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 | Howell St. Oswald | |
Poor Law union | Sleaford | |
Wapentake | Aswardhurn |
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 Howell:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1564-1812 | 1564-1832 | 1563-1810 |
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 Howell from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Howell (St. Oswald))
Maps
Online maps of Howell 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: