Healing, Lincolnshire

Historical Description

Healing, a small village and a parish in Lincolnshire, with a station on the M.S. & L.R., 4 miles W from Great Grimsby. There is a post office (S.O.) under Laceby; money order and telegraph office, Laceby. Acreage, 1336; population, 118. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £238. Patron, the Bishop of Manchester. The church consists of nave and chancel with a tower, and is an ancient building in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles.

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 Healing:

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 Healing from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Healing (St. Peter and St. Paul))

Maps

Online maps of Healing 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