Worlaby (Glanford Brigg), Lincolnshire

Historical Description

Worlaby, a parish, with a village, in Lincolnshire, 2 miles from Elsham station on the M.S. & L.R., and 5 NNE of Glanford Brigg. It has a post and money order office under Lincoln; telegraph office, Elsham. Acreage, 3067; population, 540. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £240 with residence. The church is an edifice of stone in the Early English style, and was rebuilt in 1873 on the site of the old one. There are a Wesleyan chapel, an almshouse hospital, and other charities.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

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Church Records

Findmypast, in conjunction with the Lincolnshire Archives, have the following parish records online for Worlaby By Brigg:

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Worlaby (Glanford Brigg) from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Worlaby (St. Clement))

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lincolnshire papers online:

• Grantham Journal
• Grimsby Daily Telegraph
• Lincolnshire Chronicle
• Lincolnshire Echo
• Lincolnshire Free Press
• Louth and North Lincolnshire Advertiser
• Stamford Mercury