Quadring, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Quadring, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire. The village stands 2 miles SE of Donington, and 4¼ NW of Surfleet station on the East Lincolnshire section of the G.N.R., and has a post office under Spalding; money order and telegraph office, Gosberton. The parish contains also the hamlets of Eaudyke and The Fen, and comprises 4148 acres; population of the civil parish, 852; of the ecclesiastical, 866. There is a parish council of nine members. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £217 with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Lincoln. The church is a fine building in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, and S porch, with fine tower and octagonal spire. There are Baptist, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan chapels, and town estates of about 110 acres, the rent of which is devoted to educational and charitable purposes.
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 | Quadring St. Margaret | |
Poor Law union | Spalding | |
Wapentake | Kirton |
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 Quadring:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1583-1911 | 1754-1792 | 1583-1911 | 1583-1911 |
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 Quadring from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Quadring (St. Margaret))
Maps
Online maps of Quadring 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:
- Grantham Journal
- Grimsby Daily Telegraph
- Lincolnshire Chronicle
- Lincolnshire Echo
- Lincolnshire Free Press
- Louth and North Lincolnshire Advertiser
- Stamford Mercury