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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.

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 parishSkillington St. James 
Poor Law unionGrantham 
WapentakeWinnibriggs 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:

BaptismsBannsMarriagesBurials
1542-18121759-17741665-18371583-1911

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Skillington from the following:


Maps

Online maps of Skillington 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:

DistrictSouth Kesteven
CountyLincolnshire
RegionEast Midlands
CountryEngland
Postal districtNG33
Post TownGrantham

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