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.

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:

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:

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