Aisthorpe, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Aisthorpe or East Thorpe, a parish in Lincolnshire, on the Wolds, near Ermine Street, 6 miles NE of Saxelby station on the Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint railway, and 6½ NNW of Lincoln, which is the post town; money order office, Ingham; telegraph office, Lincoln and Stow Park (R.S.O.) Acreage, 828; population, 108; including West Thorpe, 147. The living is a rectory, united to the vicarage of West Thorpe, in the diocese of Lincoln; joint net yearly value, £273 with residence. The church, which was rebuilt in 1868, 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 | Aisthorpe St. Peter | |
| Poor Law union | Lincoln | |
| Wapentake | Lawress |
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 Aisthorpe:
| Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1594-1911 | 1823-1906 | 1596-1909 | 1594-1911 |
The register, including West Thorpe, or Thorpe-in-the-Fallows, dates from the year 1593.
Churches
Church of England
St. Peter (parish church)
The church of St. Peter is an edifice of stone, in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, vestry, north porch and an embattled western tower, with spire, containing 5 bells: the sbained east window is a memorial to the Rev. Charles Bernal; the west window was given by the Rev. William Charles Salter M.A. rector of Brattleby, 1861-84, and some time principal of St. Alban Hall, Oxford: the church was rebuilt in 1868, at a cost of £2,500, by the late Rev. Robert William Otter B.A. rector from 1850, from designs by Mr. T. C. Hine, architect: there are 150 sittings.
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 Aisthorpe from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Aisthorpe (St. Peter))
- Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire, 1919
Maps
Online maps of Aisthorpe 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:
- Grantham Journal
- Grimsby Daily Telegraph
- Lincolnshire Chronicle
- Lincolnshire Echo
- Lincolnshire Free Press
- Louth and North Lincolnshire Advertiser
- Stamford Mercury