Mareham on the Hill, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Mareham-on-the-Hill, a parish in Lincolnshire, 2 miles SE of Horncastle station on the G.N.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Horncastle. Acreage, 1298; population of the civil parish, 126; of the ecclesiastical, with High Toynton, 250. The manor belonged to the Tumor family. The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of High Toynton, in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £307 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Manchester. The-church, which is a plain building of local green sandstone, consists of nave and chancel, with bell-turret; was repaired in 1804, when coins of Edward IV. and Henry VII. were found in its walls. 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 | Mareham-on-the-Hill All Saints | |
Hundred | Soke of Horncastle | |
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 Mareham On The Hill:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1574-1911 | 1772-1800 | 1575-1837 | 1574-1911 |
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 Mareham on the Hill from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Mareham-on-the-Hill (All Saints))
Maps
Online maps of Mareham on the Hill 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: