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.
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 | Roulston St. Clement | |
Poor Law union | Sleaford | |
Wapentake | Flaxwell |
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:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1561-1911 | 1561-1836 | 1561-1911 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Rowston or Roulston from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Roulston (St. Clement))
Maps
Online maps of Rowston or Roulston 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: