Wispington, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Wispington, a parish in Lincolnshire, 4 miles WNW of Horncastle station on the G.N.R. Post town, Horncastle. Acreage, 1209; population, 100. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £150 with residence. The church was rebuilt in 1863 in the Early English style.
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 | Wispington St. Margaret | |
Poor Law union | Horncastle | |
Wapentake | Gartree |
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 Wispington:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1662-1814 | 1768-1797 | 1662-1908 | 1662-1815 |
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 Wispington from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Wispington (St. Margaret))
Maps
Online maps of Wispington 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: