Burgh in the Marsh, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Burgh-in-the-Marsh, a small market-town and a parish in Lincolnshire. The town stands 2 miles E from Burgh station on the G.N.R., 4 Wof the sea, and 6½ E by S of Spilsby. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office (R.S.O.), and three banks. A weekly market is held on Thursday, and a large stock market is held weekly during the summer and monthly during the winter. Fairs for the sale of cattle are held on the second Thursday in May and 26 September. Brick-making, brewing, and making are industries carried on here. A Roman station was here, and remains of a Roman castrum still exist on high ground, partly natural, partly artificial. Roman coins also have been found, and there are two tumuli, one of them very high, called Cockhill. There were formerly two churches, but one of them has been demolished. The other, now the parish church, is Later English, consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, has a fine embattled, turreted, western tower, the battlements adorned with quatrefoils, and contains a richly carved oaken pulpit and an octagonal font, with cover of carved oak of the same-date as the pulpit (1623). The font cover was restored in 1892, and at the same time a chancel screen was constructed, partly composed of carved oak which formed part of the chantry screens removed some years before. The church was reseated in 1889. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels. A Church of England Training College for the preparation of students for missionary work was opened in 1878. The parish comprises 4399 acres; population of the civil parish, 969; of the ecclesiastical with Winthorpe, 1295. The living is a vicarage united with the vicarage of Winthorpe in the diocese of Lincoln; joint net yearly value, £270 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of London.
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 | Burgh-in-the-Marsh St. Peter | |
Poor Law union | Spilsby | |
Wapentake | Candleshoe |
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 Burgh Le Marsh:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1538-1864 | 1655-1811 | 1538-1911 | 1538-1911 |
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 Burgh in the Marsh from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Burgh-in-the-Marsh (St. Peter))
Maps
Online maps of Burgh in the Marsh 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: