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.
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 | Skellingthorpe St. Lawrence | |
Poor Law union | Lincoln | |
Wapentake | Boothby-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:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1562-1911 | 1564-1910 | 1565-1911 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Skellingthorpe from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Skellingthorpe (St. Lawrence))
Maps
Online maps of Skellingthorpe 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