Skillington, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Skillington, a parish, with a village, in Lincolnshire, 4 miles SW by S of Great Ponton station on the G.N.R. main line, and 7½ S by W of Grantham. It has a post office under Grantham; money order and telegraph office, Buckminster. Acreage, 2240; population, 369. The parish council consists of five members. The manor belongs to the Earl of Dysart and the Cholmeley family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £120 with residence. The church is an ancient building of stone, chiefly in the Early English style, but with some Norman remains, consisting of chancel, nave, Lady chapel containing a double piscina, aisles, S porch, and a tower surmounted by an octagonal broach spire. There is also a Wesleyan chapel. Sir Isaac Newton was a pupil in a dame school here.
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 | Skillington St. James | |
Poor Law union | Grantham | |
Wapentake | Winnibriggs and Threo |
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 Skillington:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1542-1812 | 1759-1774 | 1665-1837 | 1583-1911 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Skillington from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Skillington (St. James))
Maps
Online maps of Skillington 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: