North Elkington, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Elkington, North, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, 4½ miles NW by N from Louth station on the G.N.R. It and South Elkington have a post office, of the name of Elkington, under Louth; money order and telegraph office, Louth. Acreage, 1001; population, 82. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of South Elkington, in the diocese of Lincoln. The church is modern. Echard the historian was vicar.
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 | North Elkington St. Helen | |
Hundred | Louth-Eske | |
Poor Law union | Louth |
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 North Elkington:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1701-1911 | 1701-1911 | 1702-1911 |
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 North Elkington from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Elkington, North (St. Helen))
Maps
Online maps of North Elkington 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: