Eagle, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Eagle, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, adjacent to the boundary with Notts, 2 miles WNW of Thorpe station on the M.R., and 7½ SW by W from Lincoln. It contains the hamlet of Eagle Bamsdale, and has a post office under Lincoln; money order office, Collingham; telegraph office, Thorpe railway station. Acreage, 1468; population of the civil parish, 395; of the ecclesiastical, which includes Eagle Hall or New Eagle, 463. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; gross yearly value, £144 with residence. The church is an ancient structure of stone. There are Wesleyan and Wesleyan Reform chapels.
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 | Eagle All Saints | |
Poor Law union | Lincoln | |
Wapentake | Boothby-Graffo |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The Phillimore transcript of Marriages at Eagle 1588-1837, Lincolnshire is available to browse online.
Findmypast, in conjunction with the Lincolnshire Archives, have the following parish records online for Eagle:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1588-1911 | 1802-1802 | 1588-1837 | 1588-1895 |
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 Eagle from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Eagle (All Saints))
Maps
Online maps of Eagle 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: