Scotton, Lincolnshire

Historical Description

Scotton, a village, a township, and a parish in Lincolnshire. The township lies on the river Eau, 2 miles N of Northorpe station, and 2½ W of Kirton-in-Lindsey station, both on the main line of the M.S. & L.R. It has a post office under Lincoln; money order office, Scotter; telegraph office, Kirton Lindsey. The parish contains also part of the township of East Ferry, on the river Trent, which is noticed separately. Area of Scotton, 1849 acres; population, 219; of East Ferry, 483 acres; population, 133. Population of the ecclesiastical parish of Scotton-with-East Ferry, 337. The living is a rectory, with East Ferry chapelry, in the diocese of Lincoln; joint net value, £400 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is a large building of stone in the Norman, Early English, and later styles, containing several ancient tombs and monuments. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels at Scotton.

Administration

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

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 Scotton:

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 Scotton from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Scotton (St. Genewys))

Maps

Online maps of Scotton 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:

• Grantham Journal
• Grimsby Daily Telegraph
• Lincolnshire Chronicle
• Lincolnshire Echo
• Lincolnshire Free Press
• Louth and North Lincolnshire Advertiser
• Stamford Mercury