Keelby, Lincolnshire

Historical Description

Keelby, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire. The village stands 3 miles SW of Stallingborough station on the M.S. & L.R., and 7 NE from Caistor, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Brocklesby (S.O.), and a fair on 10 July. The parish comprises 1860 acres; population, 702. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £154 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Yarborough. The church is ancient but good, has Norman arches, and a tower, and contains an ancient effigies of Alice South. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

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 Keelby:

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 Keelby from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Keelby (St. Bartholomew))

Maps

Online maps of Keelby 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

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