Usselby, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Usselby, a parish in Lincolnshire, with a station on The M.S. & L.R., 153 miles from London, and 3 N by W of Market Rasen. Post town, Market Rasen. Acreage, 853; population, 50. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £70. The church is Gothic in style.
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 | Usselby St. Margaret | |
Poor Law union | Caistor | |
Wapentake | Walshcroft |
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 Usselby:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1564-1910 | 1756-1798 | 1565-1907 | 1564-1910 |
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 Usselby from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Usselby (St. Margaret))
Maps
Online maps of Usselby 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: