Butterwick, West, with Kelfield, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Butterwick, West, with Kelfield, a village, a township, and a parish in Lincolnshire, on the river Trent, 3 miles S of Althorpe station on the M.S. & L.R. The village has a ferry to East Butterwick, and the Hull and Gainsborough steam packets call daily. It has a post and money order office under Doncaster; telegraph office, Burringham. Acreage of the civil parish, 2394; population, 663; of the ecclesiastical, 667. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net yearly value, £279 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Owston. The church was built in 1841. There are General Baptist, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan 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 | |
Civil parish | Owston | |
Poor Law union | Gainsborough | |
Wapentake | Manley |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
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 Butterwick, West, with Kelfield from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Butterwick, West)
Maps
Online maps of Butterwick, West, with Kelfield 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