Horkstow, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Horkstow, a parish, with a village, in Lincolnshire, on the New Anchoime river, 4 miles SW from Barton-upon-Humber ration on the M.S. & L.R. It has a post office under Hull; money order office, South Ferriby; telegraph office, Barton-upon-Humber. Acreage, 2138; population, 243. The manor belongs to the Earl of Yarborough. Horkstow Hall, built on the site of the Diamond Dale Priory, is now a farm-house. Roman coins, and fragments of three tesselated pavements were found near the Hall in 1796. A suspension bridge is here over the Anchoime river, connecting the village with West Halton. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net yearly value, £170. Patron, the Earl of Yarborough. The church is an ancient building of brick and stone, partly in the Early English style, and there are Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels.
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 | Horkstow St. Maurice | |
Poor Law union | Glandford-Brigg | |
Wapentake | Yarborough |
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 Horkstow:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1562-1911 | 1562-1911 | 1562-1911 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Horkstow from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Horkstow (St. Maurice))
Maps
Online maps of Horkstow 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: