Croxby
- The parish was in the Caistor sub-district of the Caistor 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 / 631 |
| 1861 |
R.G. 9 / 2392 |
| 1871 |
R.G. 10 / 3421 |
| 1891 |
R.G. 12 / 2621 |
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to All Saints.
- The church was originally erected in 1140.
- The church seats 80.
- Richard CROFT has a photograph of All Saints Church on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2005.
- Here is a photo of the church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1812. Earlier registers were lost to fire.
- The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Westwold Deanery to make your search easier.
- Kelly's 1913 Directory of Lincolnshire places the parish in the East Walshcroft rural deanery.
- Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.
- The parish was in the Caistor sub-district of the Caistor Registration District.
- Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which began in July, 1837.
Croxby is a very small village and a parish in the north of Lincolnshire, about 5 miles east of Caistor, 9 miles north-east of Market Rasen and 10 miles southwest from Grimsby. Thorganby parish is to the south-east and Cuxwold parish to the north. The parish only covers about 1,650 acres. If you are planning a visit:
- The village does not appear on most motoring maps. It is too small.
- Check our resources on the transport page for bus services.
- See our touring page for area resources.
- John Donald COATES, a farmer, was the resident in Croxby Hall in 1912.
- The national grid reference is TA 1998.
- You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer map, which has a scale of 2.5 inches to the mile.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
- This place was an ancient parish in county Lincoln and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
- The parish was in the south division of the ancient Walshcroft Wapentake in the West Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
- Kelly's 1913 Directory of Lincolnshire places the parish, perhaps erroneously, in the East Lindsey division of the county.
- In April, 1936, this Civil Parish was abolished and all the land amalgamated into Thoresway Civil Parish.
- Today's district governance is provided by the West Lindsey District Council.
- After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, this parish became part of the Caistor Poor Law Union.
- Bastardy cases would be heard at the Caistor petty session hearings every fourth Wednesday of the month.
| Year |
Inhabitants |
| 1801 |
57 |
| 1831 |
73 |
| 1841 |
106 |
| 1871 |
140 |
| 1881 |
127 |
| 1891 |
115 |
| 1911 |
119 |
Last updated on 3-April-2015
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