Riby, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Riby, a parish, with a village, in Lincolnshire, on the Wolds, 3½ miles SSW of Stallingborough station on the main line of the M.S. & L.R., and 6½ WSW of Great Grimsby. It has a post office under Stallingborough (S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Laceby. Acreage, 2803; population, 288. Riby Grove is a fine mansion of stone surrounded by pleasant grounds. The manor belongs to the Pretyman family, who are sole landowners. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; gross value, £119. The church was partly restored and partly rebuilt in 1869 at a cost of about £5000, and is an edifice of stone consisting of chancel, nave, transepts, aisles, and a central embattled pinnacled tower. A Wesleyan chapel was built here in 1884. There are endowed almshouses for four poor men, which were erected in 1848.
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 | Riby St. Edmund | |
Poor Law union | Caistor | |
Wapentake | Yarborough |
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 Riby:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1560-1812 | 1754-1812 | 1560-1836 | 1559-1911 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Riby from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Riby (St. Edmund))
Maps
Online maps of Riby 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: