Thorpe St Peter, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Thorpe St Peter, a parish, with a scattered village, in Lincolnshire, with a station called Thorpe Culvert, on the G.N.R., 125 miles from London, and 2 NNW of Wainfleet. Post town, Wainfleet. Acreage, 3147; population, 540. There is a parish council consisting of eight members. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £250. The church is a building of sandstone in the Decorated style, and has been restored. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist 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 | Thorpe St. Peter | |
Poor Law union | Spilsby |
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 Thorpe St Peter:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1653-1911 | 1754-1811 | 1653-1911 | 1653-1911 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Thorpe St Peter from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Thorpe (St. Peter))
Maps
Online maps of Thorpe St Peter 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: