Lusby, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Lusby, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, 4 miles WNW of Spilsby terminal station on the G.N.R., and 6 E from Horncastle. Post town and telegraph office, Spilsby; money order office, Hagworthingham. Acreage, 900; population of the civil parish, 83; of the ecclesiastical, with As-garby, 166. The manor and most of the land belong to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. The living is a rectory, with the vicarage of Asgarby annexed, in the diocese of Lincoln; gross value, £158. Patron, the Bishop of Lincoln. The church is a small building of stone in the Norman style, which was restored in 1892. It contains a brass of 1600, with a curious rhyming dialogue between a deceased wife and her surviving husband. There is also a small 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 | Lusby St. Peter | |
Poor Law union | Horncastle |
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 Lusby:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1690-1812 | 1757-1806 | 1691-1836 | 1691-1812 |
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 Lusby from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Lusby (St. Peter))
Maps
Online maps of Lusby 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: