England GenWeb Project - Lincolnshire, Market Stainton

Market Stainton

The parish was in the Wragby sub-district of the Horncastle Registration District.
Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:

The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Michael.
The church was restored in 1886 and again in 1909-10.
The church building is small, seating only 80.
A photograph of St. Michael's Church is at the Wendy PARKINSON English Church Photographs site.
Another good photograph of St. Michael's Church, taken on a sunny day, is at the Flickr Photographs site.
J. HANNAH-BRIGGS has a photograph of St. Michael's Church on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2012.
Here is a photo of Saint Michael's Church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):

Saint Michael's Church

The Anglican parish register dates from 1689 for baptisms and burials, 1690 for marriages.
The LFHS has published several marriage indexes for the Horncastle Deanery to make your search easier.
Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.
The Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel in this parish before 1871.

The parish was in the Wragby sub-district of the Horncastle Registration District.
Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which began in July, 1837.

Market Stainton is both a village and a parish, 8 miles north of Horncastle. Ranby parish lies to the south. The parish covers about 1,200 acres.

The village stands on a rise overlooking the River Bain. If you are planning a visit:

The national grid reference is TF 2279.
You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer #273 map, which has 2.5 inches to the mile scale.
See our Maps page for additional resources.

The RAF opened a station here in January, 1943. It was primarily a storage facility for ammunition, but ammo was stored on the roadside verges when space ran out. It used the rail station at Brocklesby to supply the eastern stations in Lincolnshire and had a satellite storage facility at Orby.
The Market Stainton facility was closed in 1948.

This place was an ancient parish in Lincoln county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
The parish was in the north division of the ancient Gartree Wapentake in the East Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
For today's district governance, see the East Lindsey District Council.

Bastardy cases would be heard at the Horncastle petty session hearings.
As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, the parish became part of the Horncastle Poor Law Union.

Year Inhabitants

1801 93

1811 130

1821 131

1831 132

1841 184

1851 142

1871 100

1881 97

1891 123

1901 84

1911 104

Last updated on 20-May-2015
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