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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.

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 parishTimberland St. Andrew 
Poor Law unionSleaford 
WapentakeLangoe 

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:

BaptismsBannsMarriagesBurials
1660-19091756-17911660-19111660-1851

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:


Maps

Online maps of Timberland 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:

DistrictNorth Kesteven
CountyLincolnshire
RegionEast Midlands
CountryEngland
Postal districtLN4
Post TownLincoln

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