Harpswell, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Harpswell, a parish in Lincolnshire, on the Wolds, 5 miles SSE from Northope station on the M.S. & L.R., and 8 E from Gainsborough. Post and telegraph office, Lincoln; money order office, Willoughton. Acreage, 2165; population, 120. The living is a donative in the diocese of Lincoln; gross yearly value,, £100. Patrons, the Whichcote family. The church, dedicated to St Chad, is plain but good, contains a fine old Norman font and some interesting tombs and monuments, and was restored at the expense of the late Sir Thomas Whichcote, Bart., in 1890-91.
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 | Harpswell St. Chad | |
Poor Law union | Gainsborough | |
Wapentake | Aslacoe |
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 Harpswell:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1559-1909 | 1559-1842 | 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 Harpswell from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Harpswell (St. Chad))
Maps
Online maps of Harpswell 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: