Friskney, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Friskney, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire. The village stand— near the coast, 4 miles ESE of Eastville station on the G.N.R., and 4 SW of Wainfleet, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Boston. The parish comprises 6844 acres; population, 1373. A large tract of the land was drained, inclosed, and embanked under an act of 1809. Upwards of 30,000 head of ducks, widgeon, and teal were annually sent from decoys in this tract previous to the reclamation, but the number afterwards scarcely amounted to 5000. From 2000 to 4000 pecks of cranberries were annually gathered from Cranberry Fen, but after the drainage of the tract the gathering of them almost ceased. Friskney Flat is a long reach of sand, alternately covered and left bare by the tide. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lin-— coin; gross yearly value, £760 with residence. The church comprises a south porch, a nave of five bays, and a chancel; contains a carved oaken pulpit of 1659, a chancel-screen, and an octagonal font, and was restored in 1879. There are two. Wesleyan chapels and charities amounting to about £112 yearly.
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 | Friskney All Saints | |
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 Friskney:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1562-1911 | 1755-1785 | 1559-1911 | 1563-1908 |
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 Friskney from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Friskney (All Saints))
Maps
Online maps of Friskney 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: