Horbling, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Horbling, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire. The village stands near Carr Dyke, 3½ miles ENE from Folking-; ham, and half a mile N from Billingborough station on the G.N.R., and has a post office under Folkingham; money order and telegraph office, Billingborough. The parish includes also the hamlet of Bridge End, and comprises 3143 acres; population, 482. Remains of a priory are at Bridge End. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, about £200. Patron, the Bishop of Lincoln. The church is partly Norman, partly of later dates, is cruciform, with central tower, and in good condition, and has a memorial window and an ancient font, the former put up in 1854 to Mr Benjamin Smith. An endowed school has over £50, and other bequests realise about £70 a year, the money being devoted to parochial purposes.
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 | Horbling St. Andrew | |
Poor Law union | Bourne | |
Wapentake | Aveland |
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 Horbling:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1653-1911 | 1765-1768 | 1653-1911 | 1653-1909 |
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 Horbling from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Horbling (St. Andrew))
Maps
Online maps of Horbling 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