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Skellingthorpe, Lincolnshire

Historical Description

Skellingthorpe, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire. The village stands 1 mile from Saxilby station on the Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint railway, 4½ miles W of Lincoln, and has a post office under Lincoln; money order and telegraph office, Lincoln. The parish contains also the hamlet of Swallowbeck, and comprises 5946 acres; population, 650. The manor was bequeathed in 1693 by H. Stone, Esq., to Christ's Hospital, London. Skellingthorpe Hall is a modern mansion standing about a mile S from the church. Hartsholm Hall is a fine modern mansion of red brick standing amidst extensive pleasure grounds, in which there is a lake 25 acres in extent. Much of the land was reclaimed from a marshy state subsequent to 1835. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; gross value, £174 with residence. The church, which was rebuilt in 1835, is a small building of stone in the Early English style, and there are 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 
Ecclesiastical parishSkellingthorpe St. Lawrence 
Poor Law unionLincoln 
WapentakeBoothby-Graffo 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Church Records

The Phillimore transcript of Marriages at Skellingthorpe 1563-1812, Lincolnshire is available to browse online.

Findmypast, in conjunction with the Lincolnshire Archives, have the following parish records online for Skellingthorpe:

BaptismsBannsMarriagesBurials
1562-1911 1564-19101565-1911

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Skellingthorpe from the following:


Maps

Online maps of Skellingthorpe 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:


Villages, Hamlets, &c

Swallowbeck
DistrictNorth Kesteven
CountyLincolnshire
RegionEast Midlands
CountryEngland
Postal districtLN6
Post TownLincoln

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