Sixhills
- 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 / 644 |
| 1861 |
R.G. 9 / 2396 |
| 1871 |
R.G. 10 / 3426 |
| 1891 |
R.G. 12 / 2624 |
- A Gilbertine Priory, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, was endowed here in the reign of King Stephen.
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to All Saints.
- The church was taken down and rebuilt in 1869.
- The church's gabel turret was struck by lightning in 1871. A new bell tower was built to replace it in 1875. The tower was rebuilt in 1902.
- The church only seats 75.
- Richard CROFT has a photograph of shade-covered All Saints Church on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2005.
- Here is a photo of All Saints Church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1672 for baptisms and burials and from 1682 for marriages.
- The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Westwold Deanery to make your search easier.
- The Free Methodists had a chapel built here in 1886. For information and assistance in researching chapel records, see our non-conformist religions page.
- 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 lie about 4.5 miles south of Market Rasen and a little over 10 miles west of Louth. Just to the north lies North Willingham parish. The parish covers about 1,900 acres.
If you are planning a visit:
- Let's hope they've trimmed the bushes around this signpost photographed by David WRIGHT and stored on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2006.
- See our touring page for visitor services.
- The national grid reference is TF 1787.
- 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.
- The parish was in the East division of the ancient Wraggoe 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. The 1913 edition does the same.
- Today's district governance is provided by the West Lindsey District Council.
| Year |
Inhabitants |
| 1801 |
131 |
| 1831 |
169 |
| 1841 |
205 |
| 1871 |
163 |
| 1881 |
175 |
| 1891 |
153 |
| 1901 |
112 |
| 1911 |
120 |
- An Infant's School was built here in 1874 to hold 30 children. This was closed in 1902 and the children of the parish were sent to school in North WIllingham and Hainton.
- For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.
Last updated on 16-May-2015
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