Anwick
- The parish was in the Sleaford sub-district of the Sleaford Registration District.
- Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
Census
Year |
Piece No. |
| 1841 |
H.O. 107 / 614 |
| 1861 |
R.G. 9 / 2342 |
| 1871 |
R.G. 10 / 3349 |
| 1881 |
R.G. 11 / 3222 |
- The Anglican parish church was dedicated to St. Edith.
- The tower of the church has looked out over the Fens for 600 years. The church itself dates from the 13th century.
- The church was restored in 1859.
- The church chancel was rebuilt in 1900.
- The church spire was struck by lightning on 8 February, 1906.
- The church seats 206.
- There is a photograph of St. Edith's Church on the Wendy PARKINSON Church Photos web site.
- Richard CROFT has a photograph of St. Edith's Church on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2006.
- Here is a photograph St. Edith Church supplied by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
- The Anglican parish registers exist from 1573.
- We have the beginnings of a Parish Register extract in a pop-up text file. Your additions would be welcomed.
- The LFHS has published several marriage and burial indexes for the Lafford Deanery to make your search easier.
- The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here in 1885.
- J. HANNAH-BRIGGS has a photograph of the Anwick Methodist Church on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2011.
- Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.
- The parish was in the Sleaford sub-district of the Sleaford Registration District.
- Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which began in July, 1837.
This small village and parish are nearly 5 miles northeast of Sleaford, in a rural, agricultural area. Ewerby parish lies to the south and Ruskington parish to the northwest. The eastern part of the parish is bounded by the Car Dyke. The parish covers just under 2,000 acres.
The Sleaford Canal passes just south of the village. If you are planning a visit:
- Anwick lies on the A153 trunk road.
- If you are lucky, you might see some Swans on the River Slea as Jim THORNTON did in this photograph on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2006.
- Visit our touring page for more sources.
- Richard CROFT captures a little local history with this photograph of the Drake Stones on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2006.
- The national grid reference is TF 1150.
- An Ordnance Survey "Explorer 261" map will show detail of 2.5 inches to 1 mile scale.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
- In October, 1916, the Royal Flying Corps had an airfield at Anwick. It was in use until 1918 and closed in June, 1919.
- The airfield was re-opened as a decoy airfield in 1939 and closed again in August, 1942.
- The airfield was at grid co-ordinates TF 109 519.
- Anwick is from the Old English Amma+wic, meaning "village of Amma". It appears as Amuinc in the 1086 Domesday Book, and as Amewic in 1218.
A. D. Mills, "A Dictionary of English Place-Names," Oxford University Press, 1991.
- Many locals pronounce the name as "Annick".
- White's 1842 Directory lists the following surnames in the parish: BELLAMY, COLLISHAW, FAULKNER, Rev. HAZELWOOD, JACKSON, KING, Rev. LATHAM, LUNN, MILLER, OSGERBY, PASK, POGSON, PRIESTLEY, ROBERTS, ROBINSON, SUMNER, THOMPSON, WILKINSON and WINTER.
- This place was an ancient parish in county Lincoln and it became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
- The parish was in the ancient Flaxwell Wapentake in the North Kesteven district in the parts of Kesteven.
- You may contact the local Anwick Parish Council regarding civic or political issues, but they are NOT staffed nor funded to provide family history searches.
- For today's district governance, see the North Kesteven District Council.
- Bastardy cases would be heard in the Sleaford petty session hearings every Monday.
- The common lands were enclosed here in 1791.
- The parish was entitled to send a poor man to Carr's Hospital in Sleaford.
- In 1684, William JOLLEY left some land to the poor. In 1794, that was exchanged for 2 acres which were let to nine cottagers.
- After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, the parish became part of the Sleaford Poor Law Union.
| Year |
Inhabitants |
| 1801 |
209 |
| 1831 |
235 |
| 1841 |
310 |
| 1871 |
324 |
| 1881 |
348 |
| 1891 |
261 |
| 1901 |
254 |
| 1911 |
255 |
- A Church of England School was built here in 1873 to hold 60 children.
- For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.
Last updated on 16-January-2015
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