Kingerby, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Kingerby, a parish in Lincolnshire, on a branch of the river Ancholrne, 2½ miles W by S of Usselby station on the Hull and Lincoln branch of the M.S. & L.E., and 5 NW of Market Rasen. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Market Easen. Acreage, 1455; population, 76. Kingerby Hall is the chief residence. Kingerby House is a large modern mansion. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £152 with residence. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Early English style, consists of nave, chancel, and aisle, and contains two effigies of Knights Templars, and several monuments to the Youngs. There are almshouses with £100 a year. Bishop Bridge, a hamlet partly in this parish, is at the head of the Anchoime Navigation, and has a Wesleyan chapel.
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 | Kingerby St. Peter | |
Poor Law union | Caistor | |
Wapentake | Walshcroft |
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 Kingerby:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
---|---|---|---|
1765-1911 | 1776-1811 | 1793-1908 | 1774-1910 |
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 Kingerby from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Kingerby (St. Peter))
Maps
Online maps of Kingerby 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: