North Willingham
- 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 / 649 |
| 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 Thomas the Apostle.
- The church was rebuilt in 1777.
- The interior of the church was restored in 1896.
- The church seats 140.
- David WRIGHT has a photograph of St. Thomas Church on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2006.
- Here is a photo of St. Thomas Church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1658.
- 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 are on the road between Louth and Market Rasen. Tealby parish is to the north and Sixhills parish is to the south. The parish covers just under 2,000 acres and includes the hamlet of Bloater Hill one mile south-west of the village. If you are planning a visit:
- By automobile, take the A631 arterial road east out of Market Rasen or west out of Louth.
- See our touring page for more sources.
- Willingham House, the seat of the BOUCHERETT family, was built in 1790 about 1.5 miles west of the old hall. The Hall stands in 80 acres of well-wooded land.
- The national grid reference is TF 1688.
- 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 southern division of the ancient Walshcroft Wapentake in the West Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
- Kelly's 1900 Directory of Lincolnshire places the parish, perhaps erroneously, in the East Lindsey district of the county.
- Today's district governance is provided by the West Lindsey District Council.
- As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, the parish became part of the Caistor Poor Law Union.
- Bastardy cases would be heard on the 1st Tuesday each month at the Market Rasen petty session hearings.
| Year |
Inhabitants |
| 1801 |
191 |
| 1831 |
223 |
| 1841 |
210 |
| 1871 |
194 |
| 1891 |
172 |
| 1911 |
194 |
- The parish school was built in 1845 by Ayscoghe BOUCHERETT. (Some records give a "build" date of 1850.)
- For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.
Last updated on 26-April-2015
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