North Rauceby, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Rauceby, North, a parish, with a village, in Lincolnshire, near Ermine Street, 4 miles W by N of Sleaford, and 1½ mile N from Rauceby station on the Grantham and Sleaford branch of the G.N.R. Post town, Grantham; money order and telegraph office, Sleaford. Acreage, 3211; population of the civil parish, 269; of the ecclesiastical, 659. The manor, with most of the land, belongs to the Marquis of Bristol. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £191 with residence. The church is an ancient building of Ancaster stone in the Decorated and Early English styles, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch, and western tower, with an octagonal broach spire. It has some good stained windows and some interesting tombs and monuments. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Church Records
Findmypast, in conjunction with the Lincolnshire Archives, have the following parish records online for North And South Rauceby:
| Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1688-1812 | 1772-1780 | 1688-1911 | 1688-1812 |
Maps
Online maps of North Rauceby 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: