East Torrington
- The parish was in the Market Rasen 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 / 647 |
| 1851 |
H.O. 107 / 2115 |
| 1861 |
R.G. 9 / 2396 |
| 1871 |
R.G. 10 / 3426 |
| 1891 |
R.G. 12 / 2624 |
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Michael.
- The current church building was erected in 1850 on the site of an earlier church.
- The church seats about 80.
- David WRIGHT provides a photograph of the church on Geo-graph, taken in 2006.
- Here is a photo of St. Michael's church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1564.
- 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 Market Rasen 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 village and parish lies about 5 miles south-south-east of Market Rasen and two miles north-west of East Barkwith. Sixhills parish lies to the north. The parish covered about 1,500 acres.
This was an agricultural parish where wheat, oats and barley competed with root crops for the residents attention. If you are planning a visit:
- By automobile, take the A157 trunk road west out of Louth toward Wragby. Turn north at East Barkwith.
- Jonathan THACKER provides a photograph of the busy crossroads on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2011.
- Visit our touring page for visitor services.
- The national grid reference is TF 1483.
- 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 Lincoln county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
- The parish was in the western division of the ancient Wraggoe Wapentake in the West Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
- Kelly's 1900 Directory of Lincolnshire places this parish in the East Lindsey division of the county, as does the 1913 edition.
- In April, 1936, this Civil Parish was abolished and all the land amalgamated into Legsby Civil parish.
- Today's district governance is provided by the West Lindsey District Council.
- After the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Caistor Poor Law Union.
- Bastardy cases would be heard at the Wragby petty sessional hearings on the first Thursday of the month.
| Year |
Inhabitants |
| 1801 |
85 |
| 1831 |
87 |
| 1841 |
113 |
| 1871 |
125 |
| 1891 |
114 |
| 1911 |
115 |
- The children of this parish attended schools in the neighboring parishes of West Torrington, East Barkwith and Hainton.
- For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.
Last updated on 21-December-2015
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