Holbeach Hurn, Lincolnshire

Historical Description

Holbeach Hurn, a village and an ecclesiastical parish, the latter being formed out of Holbeach parish in 1870, situated near the Fleet Haven, about 3 miles NE from Holbeach. Population, 451. The living is a vicarage; net value, £220. The church, dedicated to St Luke, erected in 1869, is a building of red brick, with dressings of stone in the Early English style. There are also Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels.

Maps

Online maps of Holbeach Hurn 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