Salmonby
Salmonby is both a village and a parish in the Wold hills, 5.5 miles north-east of Horncastle, 10 miles south of Louth and 8 miles north-west of Spilsby. Tetford parish lies to the north-east and Somersby parish to the south. The parish covers only about 1,000 acres.
Salmonby village is a small place in a low valley. The village is just a short walk south from Tetford. If you are planning a visit:
- Near the village is a chalybeate spring which many claim has medicinal properties.
- Tony ATKIN provides a photograph of a small lake at Salmonby on Geo-graph, taken in 2005.
- Visit our touring page for visitor services.
- The parish was in the Tetford 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:
Census
Year |
Piece No. |
| 1841 |
H.O. 107 / 643 |
| 1851 |
H.O. 107 / 2108 |
| 1861 |
R.G. 9 / 2369 |
| 1871 |
R.G. 10 / 3383 |
| 1891 |
R.G. 12 / 2599 |
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Margaret.
- The church was completely restored and partially rebuilt in 1871.
- The church seated 100.
- The church was declared redundant in 1973 and in 1975 the building was demolished, but the churchyard was retained.
- The Anglican parish register dates from the year 1558.
- The LFHS has published several marriage and burial indexes for the Bolingbroke Deanery to make your search easier.
- Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.
- The parish was in the Tetford sub-district of the Horncastle Registration District.
- Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which begain in July, 1837.
- The parish was a source of blue phosphate of iron and a great deal of iron oxide ore.
- The parish contains a chalybeate spring, whose waters eventually join the Steeping River near Spilsby.
- The national grid reference is TF 3273.
- You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer 273 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 ancient Hill Wapentake (Hill Hundred) in the East Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
- In Kelly's 1900 Directory of Lincolnshire, the parish is given, perhaps erroneously, as being in the South Lindsey district of the county.
- For today's district governance, see the East Lindsey District Council.
| Year |
Inhabitants |
| 1801 |
77 |
| 1811 |
85 |
| 1821 |
89 |
| 1831 |
90 |
| 1841 |
116 |
| 1851 |
110 |
| 1871 |
119 |
| 1881 |
102 |
| 1891 |
95 |
| 1901 |
86 |
| 1911 |
71 |
- The children of this parish attended school in Tetford.
- For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.
Last updated on 12-May-2015
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