Bilsby, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Bilsby, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, 1½ mile NE from Alford station on the G.N.R. The parish includes the hamlets of Asserby and Thurlby, and has a post office under Alford, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 2901; population, 450. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net yearly value, £118 with residence. The church is an ancient edifice of stone, and 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 | Bilsby Holy Trinity | |
Hundred | Calceworth | |
Poor Law union | Spilsby |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The Phillimore transcript of Marriages at Bilsby 1561-1837, Lincolnshire is available to browse online.
Findmypast, in conjunction with the Lincolnshire Archives, have the following parish records online for Bilsby:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
---|---|---|---|
1669-1911 | 1754-1778 | 1673-1910 | 1673-1911 |
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 Bilsby from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Bilsby (Holy Trinity))
Maps
Online maps of Bilsby 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