Spanby, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Spanby, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, 5½ miles SSE of Sleaford, and 2 S from Aswarby station on the Bourn and Sleaford branch of the G.N.R. Post town, Falkingham; money order and telegraph office, Osbournby. Acreage, 1041; population, 82. The manor belongs to the Cragg family. The living is a rectory annexed to Swaton, in the diocese of Lincoln; joint net yearly value, £300 with residence. The church, which was rebuilt in 1880; is a small building of red brick in the Early English style.
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 | Spanby St. Nicholas | |
Poor Law union | Sleaford | |
Wapentake | Aswardhurn |
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 Spanby:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1672-1911 | 1671-1911 | 1681-1911 |
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 Spanby from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Spanby (St. Nicholas))
Maps
Online maps of Spanby 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: