Tydd St Mary, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Tydd St Mary, a parish, with a village and with part of Tydd Gote hamlet, in Lincolnshire, with a station on the Midland and Great Northern Joint railway, 4 miles SW of Sutton Bridge. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Wisbech. Acreage, 4954; population, 837. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £630 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is very Late Norman, has a tower and spire, some painted glass windows, and an alabaster figure in armour. It was restored in 1879. There are two mission houses, Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels, a free school, and some large charities. Breakspear, who became Pope Adrian IV., is said to have been rector. The Roman bank for keeping out the sea runs through the village, and now the sea is six miles distant.
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 | Tydd St. Mary | |
| Poor Law union | Holbeach | |
| Wapentake | Elloe |
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 Tydd St Mary:
| Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1540-1894 | 1754-1808 | 1541-1911 | 1540-1911 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Tydd St Mary from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Tydd (St. Mary))
Maps
Online maps of Tydd St Mary 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: