Bloxholme or Bloxham, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Bloxholme or Bloxham, a parish in Lincolnshire, 5 miles N of Sleaford, and 2 SW of Digby station on the G.N.R. and G.E.R. Post town, Dorrington under Lincoln; money order and telegraph office, Rus Kington. Acreage, 1415; population of the civil parish, 114; of the ecclesiastical, including Digby, 458. The living is a rectory, united with the vicarage of Digby, in the diocese of Lincoln; joint gross yearly value, £4:50 with residence. The church is a building of stone in the Early English and Perpendicular styles. Bloxham Hall is a chief residence.
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 | Bloxham St. Mary | |
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 Bloxholm:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1709-1911 | 1772-1798 | 1708-1836 | 1708-1911 |
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 Bloxholme or Bloxham from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Bloxham, or Bloxholme (St. Mary))
Maps
Online maps of Bloxholme or Bloxham 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: