Laneham, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Laneham, a parish and a village in Notts, on the river Trent, at the boundary with Lincolnshire, 2½ miles SSW of Cottam railway station and 5½ NE of Tuxford, with a post office under Lincoln; money order office, Eampton; telegraph office, Newton-on-Trent. Acreage, 1589; population, 328. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners are lords of the manor. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Southwell; gross value,, £182 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of York. The church is old but good, with a tower. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Nottinghamshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Laneham St. Peter | |
Poor Law union | East Retford | |
Wapentake | Bassetlaw |
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 Laneham from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Laneham (St. Peter))
Maps
Online maps of Laneham 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: