Luddington, Lincolnshire

Historical Description

Luddington, a village, a township, and a parish in Lincolnshire. The village stands on the Old Don river at the boundary with Yorkshire, 1½ mile W of the river Trent, and 6½ miles NE of Crowie station on the M.S. & L.R., and has a post and money order office under Goole; telegraph office, Burton-on-Stather. The parish contains also the township of Garthorpe, and comprises 4838 acres; population, 98L The manor belongs to Earl Manvers. Flax is grown and dressed. The living is a rectory united with the vicarage of Garthorpe in the diocese of Lincoln; joint gross value, £451 with residence. The church was rebuilt in 1855 at a cost of £2760, is in the Early English style, and consists of nave, aisle, and chancel, with tower and spire. There are Roman Catholic, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan chapels. The village of Garthorpe is 2 miles NE from Luddington. It has a ferry over the Trent to Burton-on-Stather, and Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan 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 Luddington:

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 Luddington from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Luddington 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