South Cockerington, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Cockerington, South, or Cockerington St Leonards, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, 1 mile N from Grimoldby station on the G.N.R., and 4 miles E by N from Louth, which is the post town; money order and telegraph office, Louth. Acreage, 2167; population, 245. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net yearly value, £118. Patron, the Bishop of Lincoln. The church is an ancient building of stone of the Late Perpendicular period, and there is a Free Methodist chapel.
Church Records
Findmypast, in conjunction with the Lincolnshire Archives, have the following parish records online for South Cockerington:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1670-1812 | 1671-1837 | 1670-1911 |
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Maps
Online maps of South Cockerington 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: