North Kyme, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Kyme, North, a township in South Kyme parish, Lincolnshire, on Car Dyke, 4 miles SW by W of Dogdyke station on the G.N.R., and 7¼ NE of Sleaford. It has a post office under Lincoln; money order and telegraph office, Billinghay. Acreage, 3854; population, 636. Much of the surface, of a fenny character, was drained under an Act of 1840. Traces exist of a Roman camp, and a mediaeval stone cross stands in the centre of the village. The church, erected in 1877, is a building of brick in the Late Gothic style. It is served by the clergy of South Kyme. There is also 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 | |
Civil parish | South Kyme | |
Poor Law union | Sleaford | |
Wapentake | Flaxwell |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for North Kyme from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Kyme, North)
Maps
Online maps of North Kyme 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: