Quarrington, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Quarrington, a parish, with a neat small village, in Lincolnshire, 1½ mile SW by W of Sleaford station on the G.N.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Sleaford. Acreage, 1471; population of the civil parish, 454; of the ecclesiastical, with Old Sleaford, 969. The manor belongs to the Marquis of Bristol. The living is a rectory, united in 1860 with Old Sleaford, in the diocese of Lincoln; gross value, £260 with residence. Patron, the Marquis of Bristol. The church is an ancient building of Ancaster stone in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, N aisle, N and S doors, and a western tower with an octagonal 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 | Quarrington St. Botolph | |
Poor Law union | Sleaford | |
Wapentake | Ashwardhurn |
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 Quarrington:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1558-1823 | 1756-1815 | 1561-1911 | 1558-1911 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Quarrington from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Quarrington (St. Botolph))
Maps
Online maps of Quarrington 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: