Sedgebrook, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Sedgebrook, a parish, with a village, in Lincolnshire, on the Grantham and Nottinghamshire branch of the G.N.R., 4 miles WNW of Grantham. It has a station on the railway, and a post omce under Grantham; money order office, Bar-rowby; telegraph office, railway station. Acreage, 1676; population, 208. The manor belongs to the Thorold family, who also own all the land with the exception of the glebe. The living is a rectory, united with East Allington, in the diocese of Lincoln; joint net value, £308 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is an ancient edifice of stone in the Norman, Early English, and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel with chantry chapel, nave, aisles, N and S porches, and an embattled western tower. There are endowed, elementary, and middle class schools.
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 | Sedgebrook St. Lawrence | |
Poor Law union | Newark | |
Wapentake | Loveden |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The Phillimore transcript of Marriages at Sedgbrook 1559-1812, Lincolnshire is available to browse online.
Findmypast, in conjunction with the Lincolnshire Archives, have the following parish records online for Sedgebrook:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1538-1911 | 1754-1824 | 1538-1836 | 1561-1739 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Sedgebrook from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Sedgebrook (St. Lawrence))
Maps
Online maps of Sedgebrook 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: