Scawby, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Scawby, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire. The village stands near the M.S. & L.R., 2½ miles SW of Brigg, and has a station-jointly with Hibaldstow-on the railway, and a post, money order, and telegraph office (S.O.) under Lincoln. The parish contains also the hamlets of Sturton or Storton and Scawby Brook, and comprises 3349 acres; population, 964. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The manor belongs to the Sutton-Nelthorpe family. Scawby Hall, their seat, is a, country mansion standing in a park of about 170 acres, containing two lakes. There is a strong chalybeate spring known as the Red Well. Remains exist of a Roman camp, and Roman pavements, coins, and other relics have been found. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; gross value, £260 with residence. The church, with the exception of the tower, was rebuilt in 1842, and now consists of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch, and an embattled western tower. It has some good stained windows, and some monuments to the Nelthorpes. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels, a reading-room, a mission-room at Scawby Brook which was erected in 1891, and an endowed school with £40 a year.
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 | Scawby St. Hibald | |
Poor Law union | Glandford-Brigg | |
Wapentake | Manley |
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 Scawby:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1558-1911 | 1558-1911 | 1558-1892 |
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 Scawby from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Scawby (St. Hibald))
Maps
Online maps of Scawby 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: