Cuxwold (Cokeswold)
- 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 |
| 1851 |
H.O. 107 / 2114 |
| 1861 |
R.G. 9 / 2392 |
| 1871 |
R.G. 10 / 3421 |
| 1881 |
R.G. 11 / 3279 |
| 1891 |
R.G. 12 / 2621 |
| 1901 |
R.G. 13 / 3098 |
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Nicholas.
- The church was restored in 1860.
- The church is a small building, covered in ivy.
- The church seats 86 persons.
- A photograph of the Anglican parish church is at the Wendy PARKINSON English Church Photographs site.
- Richard CROFT has a photograph of St. Nicholas Church on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2006.
- John FIRTH has a photograph of the church interior on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2010.
- Here is a photo of the church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright). followed by another photograph of the church interior (also by Ron COLE):
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1683.
- The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Westwold Deanery to make your search easier.
- 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.
This small village and parish lies about 10 miles south-west from Grimsby and just over 4 miles east of Caistor in the Lincolnshire Wolds. The parish covers about 1,700 acres.
If you are planning a visit:
- By automobile, take the A46 trunk road west out of Grimsby and turn south at Swallow.
- See our touring page for visitor services.
- Cuxwold Hall was erected in 1861 in the Tudor style.
- In 1919, Cuxwold Hall was the residence of John Ernest SOWERBY.
- The national grid reference is TA 1701.
- 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.
- Cuxwold had a Royal Flying Corps emergency landing field in World War I.
- This place was an ancient parish in Lincoln county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
- The parish was in the ancient Bradley Haverstoe Wapentake in the West Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
- Kelly's 1900 Directory of Lincolnshire places the parish, perhaps erroneously, in the North Lindsey division of the county.
- In April, 1936, the Civil Parish was abolished and all 1,590 acres were amalgamated into Swallow Civil Parish.
- Today's district governance is provided by the West Lindsey District Council.
| Year |
Inhabitants |
| 1801 |
72 |
| 1811 |
85 |
| 1831 |
79 |
| 1841 |
62 |
| 1871 |
108 |
| 1881 |
101 |
| 1891 |
111 |
| 1901 |
79 |
| 1911 |
79 |
- A small parochial school was built here in 1862 for 41 children, but abandoned by 1910.
- The children of this parish attended school in Rothwell parish.
- For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.
Last updated on 13-January-2014
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