Stallingborough, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Stallingborough, a parish, with Stallingborough village and Little London hamlet, in Lincolnshire, on the M.S. & L.R., on which it has a station, 4 miles WNW of Great Grimsby. It has a post office (S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Keelby. Acreage, 4517; population, 449. It extends to the Humber, where there is a coastguard station, a lighthouse, and a ferry. Much of the land is under grass. The manor belongs to the Boucherett family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; gross value, £230 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Lincoln. The church, erected in 1780, is a plain building of brick, consisting of chancel, nave, and a western tower, and containing some tombs and memorials of the Ayscough family. 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 | Stallingborough St. Peter and St. Paul | |
Poor Law union | Caistor | |
Wapentake | Yarborough |
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 Stallingborough:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1589-1876 | 1762-1810 | 1588-1837 | 1588-1908 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Stallingborough from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Stallingborough (St. Peter and St. Paul))
Maps
Online maps of Stallingborough 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