Londonthorpe, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Londonthorpe, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire. The village stands near Ermine Street, 3 miles NE of Grant-ham station on the G.N.R., and contains a number of neat small houses in the Gothic style. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Grantham. The parish comprises 1722 acres; population of the civil parish, 173; of the ecclesiastical, with Manthorpe, 380. The manor and much of the land belong to Earl Brownlow. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Manthorpe, in the diocese of Lincoln; value, £198. Patron, Earl Brownlow. The chuch is a small edifice of stone in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles. It consists of chancel, nave, N and S aisles, S porch, and western tower, and was restored in 1879. There is 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 | Londonthorpe St. John the Baptist | |
Poor Law union | Grantham | |
Wapentake | Loveden |
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 Londonthorpe:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1515-1911 | 1542-1837 | 1539-1812 |
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 Londonthorpe from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Londonthorpe, (St. John the Baptist))
Maps
Online maps of Londonthorpe 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: