Ingoldsby, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Ingoldsby, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire. The village stands 4¼ miles NNE from Corby station on the G.N.R., and 8 SE from Grantham, and has a post office under Grantham; money order and telegraph office, Corby. The parish contains also the hamlet of Scotland. Acreage, 2367; population, 361. The manor and most of the land belong to the Earl of Ancaster. There is an ancient circular camp, about 500 feet in diameter, with several tumuli called the Round Hills. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; gross value, £430. Patrons, Christ's College, Cambridge. The church is Norman and Later English, in good condition, and has a tower. The rectory house was built in 1847, and is a handsome edifice in the Gothic style. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
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 | Ingoldsby St. Andrew | |
Poor Law union | Grantham | |
Wapentake | Beltisloe |
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 Ingoldsby:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1566-1878 | 1655-1789 | 1566-1838 | 1566-1911 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Ingoldsby from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Ingoldsby (St. Andrew))
Maps
Online maps of Ingoldsby 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: