Anwick, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Anwick, a parish in Lincolnshire, near the Sleaford Canal, 4¼ miles ENE of Sleaford, and 2 SE from Ruskington station on the G.N.R. and G.E.R. Post town, Sleaford; money order and telegraph office, Rnskington. Acreage, 2016; population, 261. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the rectory of Brauncewell, in the diocese of Lincoln. The church is a building of stone, in the Decorated style. There is also 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 | |
| Ecclesiastical parish | Anwick St. Edith | |
| Poor Law union | Sleaford | |
| Wapentake | Flaxwell |
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 Anwick:
| Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1573-1907 | 1808-1816 | 1574-1837 | 1573-1812 |
Churches
Church of England
St. Edith (parish church)
The church of St. Edith is a low building of stone, in the Late Decorated stvle, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, a large south porch and a western tower, with pinnacles and broach spire, containing 3 bells: in many of the windows are fragments of stained glass: the chancel was rebuilt in 1900: the south aisle was restored in 1915 and a new oak roof built: the nave was reroofed in 1916: the south aisle is now used as a side chapel: the west tower is of three stages with double buttresses at the angles, terminating in crocketed weatherings: the spire, which is octagonal, has three tiers of louvre lights: on Feb. 8, 1906, it was struck by lightning, but has since been restored and the bells rehung: during church restoration in 1859 a coloured group of the Virgin and Child and three small shafts of Late Norman work were discovered on opening a doorway which formerly led to the rood loft: the fumed oak pulpit was presented in 1912 in memory of the Rev. A. H. Staffurth M.A. vicar 1906-10: there are 206 sittings.
Methodist
Wesleyan Chapel
The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here in 1885 at a cost of about £450, and seating 120 persons.
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 Anwick from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Anwick (St. Edith))
Maps
Online maps of Anwick 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: