Saxby (Market Rasen), Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Saxby (near Market Rasen), a parish in Lincolnshire, on the river Ancholme, 5½ miles WNW of Wickenby station on the Hull and Lincoln branch of the M.S. & L.R., and 7 SW by W of Market Rasen. Post town, Lincoln; money order office, Normanby-by-Spital; telegraph office, Welton. Acreage, 1368; population of the civil parish, 129; of the ecclesiastical, with Firsby, 194. The manor, with all the land, belongs to the Earl of Scarborough. The living is a vicarage, united with the rectory of Firsby, in the diocese of Lincoln; joint gross value, £72 with residence. The church, which was originally erected as a mortuary chapel for the Saundersons, Earls of Castleton, is a small building of brick in the Classic style.
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 | Saxby St. Helen | |
Poor Law union | Lincoln | |
Wapentake | Aslacoe |
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 Saxby Owmby:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1666-1911 | 1668-1911 | 1666-1911 |
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 Saxby (Market Rasen) from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Saxby (St. Helen))
Maps
Online maps of Saxby (Market Rasen) 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: