Heapham, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Heapham, a parish in Lincolnshire, on the rising-ground above the Trent, 3 miles E by N of Lea station on the G.N.R., and 4¼ ESE from Gainsborough. It has a post office under Gainsborough; money order office, Corringham; telegraph office, Gainsborough. Acreage, 1238; population of the civil parish, 132; of the ecclesiastical, 645. The living is a discharged rectory, consolidated in 1876 with the discharged vicarage of Upton, in the diocese of Lincoln; net yearly value, £260 with residence. The church, an ancient building of stone in the Norman, Transition, and Early English styles, was restored in 1868.
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 | Heapham All Saints | |
Poor Law union | Gainsborough | |
Wapentake | Corringham |
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 Heapham:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1564-1911 | 1756-1762 | 1563-1837 | 1563-1909 |
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 Heapham from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Heapham (All Saints))
Maps
Online maps of Heapham 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: