Thornton Curtis, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Thornton Curtis, a parish, with a village, in Lincolnshire, at Thornton Abbey station on the M.S. & L.R., 4 miles SSE of New Holland. It has a post office under Ulceby; money order and telegraph office, Barrow-on-Humber. Acreage, 4934; population, 489. A Cistercian abbey stood on a spot 1½ mile NE of the village, was founded in 1139 by W. Ie Gros, Earl of Albemarle; gave its abbots a seat in the upper house of parliament; was converted by Henry VIII. into a college, and given by Edward VI. to the Bishops of Lincoln, and is now represented by interesting ruins. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £175 with residence. The church is a building of stone in the Early English style, and was restored at a great expense in 1883-84. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
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 | Thornton-Curtis St. Lawrence | |
Poor Law union | Glandford-Brigg | |
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 Thornton Curtis:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1568-1911 | 1756-1756 | 1568-1837 | 1570-1911 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Thornton Curtis from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Thornton-Curtis (St. Lawrence))
Maps
Online maps of Thornton Curtis 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