Stickford, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Stickford, a parish, with a village, in Lincolnshire, 5 miles WNW of Eastville station on the East Lincolnshire section of the G.N.R., and 6 SW of Spilsby. It has a post and money order office under Boston; telegraph office, Spilsby. Acreage, 2331; population, 413. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The manor belongs to the Pocklington-Coltman family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; gross value, £200 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Lincoln. The church is a building of stone in. The Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch, and western tower. 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 | Stickford St. Helen | |
Poor Law union | Spilsby |
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 Stickford:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1664-1911 | 1664-1836 | 1663-1812 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Stickford from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Stickford (St. Helen))
Maps
Online maps of Stickford 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: