Great Sturton, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Sturton, Great, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, 5½ miles NNW of Horncastle station on the G.N.R. Post town, Horncastle; money order and telegraph office, Baumber. Acreage, 1588; population of the civil parish, 126; of the ecclesiastical, with Banmber, 492. The manor belongs to the Livesey family. The living is a vicarage, united with Baumber, in the diocese of Lincoln; joint gross value, £180. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is an ancient building of stone, consisting of chancel, nave, S porch, and wooden bell-turret. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
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 | Sturton All Saints | |
Poor Law union | Horncastle | |
Wapentake | Gartree |
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 Great Sturton:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1679-1812 | 1756-1812 | 1681-1910 | 1679-1812 |
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 Great Sturton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Sturton, Great (All Saints))
Maps
Online maps of Great Sturton 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: