Willoughton, Lincolnshire

Historical Description

Willoughton, a parish, with a village, in Lincolnshire, 2½ miles SE of Northorpe station on the G.N.R., and 3 S by W of Kirton Lindsey. It has a post and money order office under Lincoln; telegraph office, Kirton Lindsey. Acreage, 2799; population, 457. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The manor belongs to the Earl of Scarborough. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £118 with residence. Patron, alternately King's College, Cambridge, and the Earl of Scarborough. The church is a plain building of stone in the Early English style, and was restored 1888-89. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

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 Willoughton:

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Willoughton from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Willoughton (St. Andrew))

Maps

Online maps of Willoughton 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