Westborough, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Westborough, a parish, with a village, in Lincolnshire, on the river Witham, 3 miles W of Hougham station on the G.N.R., and 7 NW by N of Grantham. Post town, Grantham; money order and telegraph office, Long Bennington. Acreage, 2070; population of the civil parish, 138; of the ecclesiastical, with Dry Doddington, 316. A Roman settlement was here. The living is twofold-a rectory united with Dry Doddington, and a rectory per se-in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £400 with residence. The church is an interesting building of stone in the Early English style. There is a Roman Catholic chapel.
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 | Westborough All Saints | |
Poor Law union | Newark | |
Wapentake | Loveden |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The Phillimore transcript of Marriages at Westborough-cum-Doddington 1564-1837, Lincolnshire is available to browse online.
Findmypast, in conjunction with the Lincolnshire Archives, have the following parish records online for Westborough With Dry Doddington:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1564-1872 | 1654-1810 | 1564-1911 | 1564-1911 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Westborough from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Westborough (All Saints))
Maps
Online maps of Westborough 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: