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.
Ancient County | Lincolnshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Panton St. Andrew | |
Poor Law union | Horncastle | |
Wapentake | Wraggoe |
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:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1736-1911 | 1757-1805 | 1737-1911 | 1737-1911 |
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 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: