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.

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:

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:

• Grantham Journal
• Grimsby Daily Telegraph
• Lincolnshire Chronicle
• Lincolnshire Echo
• Lincolnshire Free Press
• Louth and North Lincolnshire Advertiser
• Stamford Mercury