Panton, Lincolnshire

Historical Description

Panton, a parish in Lincolnshire, 3 miles E by N of Wragby, and 1½ mile S from East Barkwith station on the Louth and Lincolnshire branch of the G.N.R. It has a post office under Wragby; money order office, Wragby; telegraph office. East Barkwith (R.S.O.) Acreage, 2018; population of the civil parish, 150; of the ecclesiastical, with Wragby, 696. Panton Hall is a mansion of white brick situated on an eminence, and is a seat of the Tumor family, to whom the manor and most of the land belong. The living is a rectory, annexed to Wragby, in the diocese of Lincoln; joint net value, £256 with residence. The church is a small building of stone consisting of nave and chancel only.

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 Panton:

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 Panton from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Panton 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