Tallington, Lincolnshire

Historical Description

Tallington, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, on the river Welland and the G.N.R. main line, on which there is a station, 4 miles E by N of Stamford. There is a post office under Stamford; money order and telegraph office, Barnack. Acreage, 1791; population, 253. The manor belongs to the Earl of Lindsey. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; gross value, £156 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Lindsey. The church is an ancient cruciform edifice of Barnack stone chiefly in the Early English and Decorated styles, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, transepts, and a western tower. The spire was destroyed by lightning on 13 Aug. 1762. There is a Congregational chapel.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

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

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Tallington from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Tallington (St. Lawrence))

Maps

Online maps of Tallington 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