Strubby with Woodthorpe, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Strubby-with-Woodthorpe, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, 4 miles N by E of Alford station on the East Lincolnshire branch of the G.N.R. There is a post office under Alford; money order and telegraph office, Alford. Acreage, 2081; population, 240. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £156 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln. The church, excepting the chancel, was rebuilt in 1857. It is now a building of brick and stone in the Early Decorated and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave, S aisle, and bell-turret. The hamlet of Woodthorpe is about 2 miles S from Strubby village. Woodthorpe Hall, the ancient seat of the Ballett family, is now a farmhouse.
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 | Strubby St. Oswald | |
Hundred | Calceworth | |
Poor Law union | Louth |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The Phillimore transcript of Marriages at Strubby with Woodthorpe 1558-1837, Lincolnshire is available to browse online.
Findmypast, in conjunction with the Lincolnshire Archives, have the following parish records online for Strubby:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1622-1911 | 1622-1910 | 1621-1911 |
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 Strubby with Woodthorpe from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Strubby (St. Oswald))
Maps
Online maps of Strubby with Woodthorpe 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