North Witham, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Witham, North, a parish, with a village, in Lincolnshire, on the river Witham, 4½ miles WSW of Corby station on the G.N.R., and 9 S of Grantham. Post town, Colsterworth, under Grantham. Acreage, 2437; population of the civil parish, 199; of the ecclesiastical, 269. The manor belongs to the Earl of Dysart. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; gross value, £550 with residence. Patron, Viscount Downe. The church is a building of stone in the Transitional and Perpendicular styles, and has a spire.
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 Witham St. Mary | |
Poor Law union | Grantham | |
Wapentake | Beltisloe |
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 Witham:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
---|---|---|---|
1593-1813 | 1773-1775 | 1593-1837 | 1596-1812 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for North Witham from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Witham, North (St. Mary))
Maps
Online maps of North Witham 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