Wigtoft, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Wigtoft, a parish, with two hamlets, in Lincolnshire, 2 miles WNW of Algarkirk station on the G.N.R., and 6½ SW of Boston. It has a post office under Boston; money order and telegraph office, Sutterton. Acreage, 3587; population, 662. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £250 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Lincoln. The church includes Norman, Early English, and Later English portions, and was thoroughly restored in 1891-92. 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 | Wigtoft St. Peter and St. Paul | |
Poor Law union | Boston | |
Wapentake | Kirton |
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 Wigtoft:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1639-1911 | 1754-1785 | 1639-1911 | 1641-1842 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Wigtoft from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Wigtoft (St. Peter and St. Paul))
Maps
Online maps of Wigtoft 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
Villages, Hamlets, &c
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