Scartho, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Scartho, a parish, with a village, in Lincolnshire, 2 miles S by W of Great Grimsby, which is the nearest railway station. It has a post office under Grimsby; telegraph office, Grimsby. Acreage, 1252; population, 190. The manor belongs to the Earl of Yarborough. The reservoir of the Grimsby Waterworks Company stands within the parish. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; gross value, £280 with residence. Patron, Jesus College, Cambridge. The church is an ancient and interesting building of stone partly in the Early Decorated style, with Saxon portions, consisting of chancel, nave, and an embattled western tower. There are Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan 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 | Scartho St. Giles | |
Poor Law union | Caistor | |
Wapentake | Bradley-Haverstoe |
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 Scartho:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1564-1911 | 1564-1911 | 1564-1812 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Scartho from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Scartho (St. Giles))
Maps
Online maps of Scartho 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: