Baumber or Bamburgh, Lincolnshire

Historical Description

Baumber or Bamburgh, a parish in Lincolnshire, on the Wolds, 4 miles NW by N of Horncastle station on the G.N.R. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Horncastle. Acreage, 3361; population of the civil parish, 366; of the ecclesiastical, 492. Stourton Hall, a mansion of Ancaster stone standing in a park of 300 acres, is the seat of the Liveseys. The living is a perpetual curacy, consolidated with the vicarage of Great Sturton. The church is good, and there is a Wesleyan chapel.

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

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Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Baumber or Bamburgh from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Baumber, or Bamburgh (St. Swithin))

Maps

Online maps of Baumber or Bamburgh 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