Spittlegate, Houghton, and Walton, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Spittlegate, Houghton, and Walton, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Grantham parish, Lincolnshire, adjacent to Grantham. Acreage of township, 2261; population, 6246. Extensive foundries are here, covering an area of about 17 acres, and giving employment to about 1500 workpeople. There are also two breweries, some mailings, ironworks, a corn mill, and some brickfields. See GRANTHAM.
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 | Grantham | |
Poor Law union | Grantham | |
Wapentake | Winnibriggs and Threo |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Findmypast, in conjunction with the Lincolnshire Archives, have the following parish records online for Spittlegate:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1842-1900 | 1843-1903 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Spittlegate, Houghton, and Walton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Spittlegate)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lincolnshire papers online: