Eastoft, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Eastoft, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish formed in 1855 out of the parishes of Adingfleet in Yorkshire and Crowle in Lincolnshire. It is situated on the river Don, 4½ miles from Crowle station on the M.S. & L.R., and 9 S.E. of Goole. It has a post office under Goole; money order office, Luddington; telegraph office, Crowle. Acreage of township in Yorkshire, 1328; population, 101; acreage in Lincolnshire, 1313; population, 454. Earl Manvers is lord of the manor, and one of the principal landowners. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York; gross value, £150 with residence. The church of St Bartholomew, erected in 1855, is in the Early English style. Eastoft Hall (Lincolnshire) and Eastoft Hall (W.R. Yorkshire) are chief residences.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Lincolnshire | |
Ancient County | Yorkshire | |
Civil parish | Adlingfleet | |
Civil parish | Crowle | |
Poor Law union | Thorne | |
Poor Law union | Goole | |
Riding | West | |
Wapentake | Osgoldcross | |
Wapentake | Manley |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Eastoft from the following:
Maps
Online maps of Eastoft 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: