Timberland, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Timberland, a township and a parish in Lincolnshire. The township lies 4½ miles WSW of Kirkstead station on the G.N.R, 2 from Scopwick and Timberland station on the G.N. and G.E. Joint railway, and 9 NE by N of Sleaford. It has a post office under Lincoln; money order office, Billinghay; telegraph office, Scopwick railway station. Acreage, 2760; population, 443; of the ecclesiastical parish, 592. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The parish includes Thorpe Tilney hamlet. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £200 with residence. The church is a building of stone in the Early English style, and was restored in 1887. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels. Roman coins have been found.
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 | Timberland St. Andrew | |
Poor Law union | Sleaford | |
Wapentake | Langoe |
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 Timberland:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1660-1909 | 1756-1791 | 1660-1911 | 1660-1851 |
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 Timberland from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Timberland (St. Andrew))
Maps
Online maps of Timberland 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: