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Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire

Historical Description

Scunthorpe, a parish formed out of that of Fordingham in 1889, and a town, in North Lincolnshire, 7½ miles NW by W of Glanford Brigg, 8 S of the Humber, and 4 E of the Trent. It has a station on the M.S. & L.R., and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Doncaster. Acreage, 1031; population of the civil parish, 3481; of the ecclesiastical, 3663. It is governed by an urban district council of fifteen members. There are large ironworks and a cattle-market with a slaughter-house. The market day is every alternate Tuesday. There are a county police station, a new court house for the petty sessions (erected in 1895), and a cemetery of 3½ acres with a mortuary chapel. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; gross value, £200 with residence. Patron, Lord St Oswald. The church, erected in 1891, is a building of stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, N and W porches, and a western tower. There are Congregational, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan chapels.

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 
Civil parishFrodingham 
Poor Law unionGlandford-Brigg 
WapentakeManley 

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 Scunthorpe St John:

BaptismsBannsMarriagesBurials
1889-1911 1891-1911 

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Scunthorpe from the following:


Maps

Online maps of Scunthorpe are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lincolnshire papers online:

CountyNorth Lincolnshire
RegionYorkshire and the Humber
CountryEngland
Postal districtDN15
Post TownScunthorpe

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