Laceby, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Laceby, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire. The village stands 4 miles SW by W from Great Grimsby station on the M.S. & L. R. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Grimsby. Acreage, 2122; population, 986. An ancient earthwork is near the village, and a remarkable spring, called Wellbeck, dry in winter but copious in summer, is in the neighbourhood. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; net value,, £330. The church is a building of Ancaster stone in the Norman, Early English, and Perpendicular styles. There are also two Primitive Methodist chapels, a Wesleyan chapel, and a temperance liall. An endowed school for the parishes of Laceby, Brad-ley, and Barnoldby-le-Beck has an income of about £120 a year. Oaklands is a chief residence. John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury (1583-1604), was for some time rector of this parish.
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 | Laceby St. Margaret | |
Poor Law union | Caistor | |
Wapentake | Bradley-Haverstoe |
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 Laceby:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1538-1911 | 1754-1767 | 1538-1911 | 1527-1911 |
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 Laceby from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Laceby (St. Margaret))
Maps
Online maps of Laceby 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: