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.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Lincolnshire | |
Civil parish | Frodingham | |
Poor Law union | Glandford-Brigg | |
Wapentake | Manley |
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:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1889-1911 | 1891-1911 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Scunthorpe from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Scunthorpe)
Maps
Online maps of Scunthorpe 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: