Whitton, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Whitton, a parish in Lincolnshire, on the Humber, 8 miles from Frodingham station on the M.S. & L.R. Post town, Doncaster. Acreage, 1369; population of the civil parish, 257; of the ecclesiastical, with Alkborough, 684. The living is a vicarage, annexed to Alkborough. The church is a building of stone, rebuilt in 1893-94.
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 | Whitton St. John the Baptist | |
Poor Law union | Glandford-Brigg | |
Wapentake | Manley |
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 Whitton:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1546-1911 | 1765-1769 | 1562-1836 | 1546-1911 |
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 Whitton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Whitton (St. John the Baptist))
Maps
Online maps of Whitton 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: