Scopwick, Lincolnshire

Historical Description

Scopwick, a parish, with a village, in Lincolnshire, near the Great Eastern and Great Northern Joint line from Spalding to Doncaster, 1½ mile W from Scopwick and Timberland station, and 8½ miles N of Sleaford. It has a post office under Lincoln; money order and telegraph office, Metheringham. Acreage, 3537; population of the civil parish, 349; of the ecclesiastical, with Kirkby Green, 452. The manor belongs to the Chaplin family. Several ancient earthworks are on Scopwick Heath. The living is a vicarage, united in 1868 with Kirkby Green, in the diocese of Lincoln; joint net value, £235 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church was partly rebuilt in 1882, and is a building of stone in the Early English style. 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.

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 Scopwick:

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Scopwick from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Scopwick (Holy Cross))

Maps

Online maps of Scopwick 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