Walcott, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Walcott, a township in Billinghay parish, Lincolnshire, 2 miles N of Billinghay. Acreage, 3339; population, 531. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The living is annexed to Billinghay. The church, erected in 1852, is a small edifice of brick in the Early English style. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Lincolnshire | |
Civil parish | Billinghay | |
Poor Law union | Sleaford | |
Wapentake | Langoe |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Walcott from the following:
Maps
Online maps of Walcott 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: