Aslackby, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Aslackby, a township and a parish in Lincolnshire. The parish lies 2 miles S of Falkingham, and 3 NW from Rippin-gale station on the G.N.R., includes the hamlets of Graby and Millthorpe, and has a fen allotment. Post town, Falkingham, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 4078; population, 415. A commandery of the Knights Templars was founded here, in the time of Richard I., by John Ie Mareschal. A farmhouse, called the Temple, now stands on the site of its church. A castle also was founded here before 1062, and can still be traced in fosse and mounds. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £320. The church is a handsome edifice, with an embattled tower.
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 | Aslackby St. James | |
Poor Law union | Bourne | |
Wapentake | Aveland |
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 Aslackby:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
---|---|---|---|
1558-1861 | 1755-1911 | 1558-1906 | 1558-1911 |
Churches
Church of England
St. James (parish church)
The church of St. James is a building of stone, in the Early English and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower with four pinnacles containing a clock and 3 bells: the nave has a bell-cote at its eastern end and there are piscinæ and lockers in each aisle: the church affords 100 sittings.
Baptist
Baptist Chapel
The Baptists built a chapel here.
Methodist
Wesleyan Chapel
The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here in 1863.
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 Aslackby from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Aslackby (St. James))
Maps
Online maps of Aslackby 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
Villages, Hamlets, &c
GrabyMillthorpe