Middle Rasen, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Rasen, Middle, a parish in Lincolnshire, on the river Rasen, 1½ mile W of Market Rasen railway station. It contains a village of its own name, and consists of two consolidated parishes, called Rasen Drax and Rasen Tupholme. It has a post office under Market Rasen; money order and telegraph office, Market Rasen. Acreage, 3622; population of the civil parish, 776; of the ecclesiastical, 810. There is a parish council consisting of nine members. The manor belongs to the Sneath family. Rasen Drax was connected with Drax Abbey, near Selby, in Yorkshire; and Rasen Tupholme with Tupholme Priory, near Bardney, in Lincolnshire. The living is a double vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; gross value, £309. The church is a building of stone in the Norman, Early English, and Early Decorated styles, consisting of chancel, nave, N aisle, S porch, and western tower. There are Primitive Methodist, Reformed Wesleyan, and Wesleyan Methodist chapels.
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 | Middle Rasen St. Peter and St. Paul | |
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 Middle Rasen:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1772-1902 | 1757-1767 | 1755-1911 | 1772-1911 |
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 Middle Rasen from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Rasen, Middle (St. Peter and St. Paul))
Maps
Online maps of Middle Rasen 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: