Wrangle, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Wrangle, a parish in Lincolnshire, on the coast, 4 miles ESE of Old Leake station on the G.N.R., and 9 NE by N of Boston, with a post office under Boston; money order and telegraph office, Old Leake. Acreage, 6295; population, 1084. There is a parish council consisting of nine members. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £370 with residence. The church is Perpendicular, and contains interesting monuments, a brass, the remains of some good stained glass, and a beautiful Early English doorway. 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.
Ancient County | Lincolnshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Wrangle St. Peter and St. Paul | |
Poor Law union | Boston | |
Wapentake | Skirbeck |
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 Wrangle:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1652-1905 | 1652-1911 | 1652-1894 |
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 Wrangle from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Wrangle (St. Peter and St. Paul))
Maps
Online maps of Wrangle 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: