Little Grimsby, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Grimsby, Little, a parish in Lincolnshire, 3 miles N from Louth station on the G.N.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Louth. Acreage, 823; population, 5 8. The property belongs mainly to the lord of the manor. Grimsby Hall is a chief residence. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net yearly value, £80. The church is good, and the churchyard contains monuments to the Nel-thorpes.
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 | Little Grimsby St. Edith | |
Poor Law union | Louth | |
Wapentake | Ludborough |
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 Little Grimsby:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1593-1910 | 1763-1778 | 1593-1905 | 1596-1910 |
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 Little Grimsby from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Grimsby, Little (St. Edith))
Maps
Online maps of Little Grimsby 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: