Stewton, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Stewton, a small parish in Lincolnshire, 2½ miles E from Louth station on the East Lincolnshire section of the G.N.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Louth. Acreage, 1030; population, 112. The manor belongs to the Foster family. Bricks, tiles, and drain-pipes are made. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; gross value, £100 with residence. The church is a small but ancient building of stone of the Early Norman period, consisting of chancel, nave, S porch, and western bell-turret. There is a Free Methodist chapel.
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 | Stewton St. Andrew | |
Hundred | Louth-Eske | |
Poor Law union | Louth |
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 Stewton:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1700-1812 | 1775-1775 | 1712-1909 | 1713-1811 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Stewton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Stewton (St. Andrew))
Maps
Online maps of Stewton 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: