Waddington, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Waddington, a parish, with a village, in Lincolnshire, with a station on the G.N.R., 4 miles S of Lincoln. It has a post office under Lincoln; telegraph office, Harmston. Acreage, 3333; population, 695. There is a parish council of seven members and a chairman. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £420 with residence. Patron, Lincoln College, Oxford. The church is a building of stone in the Early English style, and has been restored. There are Wesleyan and Free 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 | Waddington St. Michael | |
Poor Law union | Lincoln | |
Wapentake | Boothby-Graffo |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The Phillimore transcript of Marriages at Waddington 1563-1837, Lincolnshire is available to browse online.
Findmypast, in conjunction with the Lincolnshire Archives, have the following parish records online for Waddington:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1675-1911 | 1675-1911 | 1675-1911 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Waddington from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Waddington (St. Michael))
Maps
Online maps of Waddington 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: