Faldingworth, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Faldingworth, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, 2 miles WNW from Wickenby station on the M.S. & L.E., and 5 SW by W from Market Easen, with a post office under Market Easen; money order and telegraph office, Market Easen. Acreage, 2539; population of the civil parish, 278; of the ecclesiastical, with Buslingthorpe, 329. The living is a rectory, with Buslingthorpe, in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £353 with residence. The church, a small building of' stone, was rebuilt, with the exception of the tower, in 1890-91, and there are Wesleyan and Free Methodist 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 | Faldingworth All Saints | |
Poor Law union | Lincoln | |
Wapentake | Lawress |
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 Faldingworth:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1559-1908 | 1754-1780 | 1559-1911 | 1559-1911 |
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 Faldingworth from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Faldingworth (All Saints))
Maps
Online maps of Faldingworth 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: