Winceby, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Winceby, a parish in Lincolnshire, 5½ miles ESE of Horncastle station on the G.N.R. Post town, Horncastle. Acreage, 853; population, 61. A battle was fought here in the Civil Wars of Charles I. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £183. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is an edifice of stone in the Early English 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 | Winceby St. Margaret | |
Hundred | Hill | |
Poor Law union | Horncastle |
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 Winceby:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1579-1911 | 1579-1909 | 1579-1911 |
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 Winceby from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Winceby (St. Margaret))
Maps
Online maps of Winceby 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: