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Rowston or Roulston, Lincolnshire

Historical Description

Rowston or Roulston, a parish, with a village, in Lincolnshire, 1 mile N of Digby station on the Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint railway, and 7½ miles N by E of Sleaford. Post town, Lincoln; money order and telegraph office, Digby. Acreage, 1879; population, 225. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; gross value, £154 with residence. The church is a building of stone in the Early English and Late Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel with chantry chapel on the N, nave, N aisle, S porch, and a small western tower with pinnacles and crocketed octagonal spire. It has an octagonal Perpendicular font. There is a Wesleyan Reform chapel.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyLincolnshire 
Ecclesiastical parishRoulston St. Clement 
Poor Law unionSleaford 
WapentakeFlaxwell 

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 Rowston:

BaptismsBannsMarriagesBurials
1561-1911 1561-18361561-1911

Directories & Gazetteers

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Maps

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Newspapers and Periodicals

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