South Elkington
- The parish was in the Louth sub-district of the Louth Registration District.
- The North Lincolnshire Library holds copies of the census returns for 1841 and 1881.
- 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 / 632 |
| 1851 |
H.O. 107 / 2111 |
| 1861 |
R.G. 9 / 2383 |
| 1871 |
R.G. 10 / 3404 |
| 1891 |
R.G. 12 / 2608 |
| 1901 |
R.G. 13 / 3084 |
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to All Saints.
- The church is built of stone and chalk.
- The church was rebuilt in 1843 and underwent alteration and repair in 1871.
- The church seats 220.
- There is a nice photograph of All Saints Church on the Flickr website.
- Here is a photo of All Saints Church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1701 for baptisms and burials, and has marriages from 1755.
- The Lincolnshire FHS has published several Marriage indexes and a Burial index for the Louthesk Deanery to make your search easier.
- Kelly's 1913 Directory of Lincolnshire places the parish in the rural Ludborough Deanery.
- Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.
- The parish was in the Louth sub-district of the Louth Registration District.
- Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which began in July, 1837.
South Elkington is a village and a parish 2.5 miles north-west of Louth, on the road to Market Rasen. Welton-le-Wold parish is to the south-west and Brackenborough parish to the north-east. The parish covers 2,660 acres (3,085 in 1912) and contains the hamlets of Ackthorpe and Coach Grange.
Locals refer to both North Elkington and South Elkington as just "Elkington". If you are planning a visit:
- By automobile, take the A631 arterial road west out of Louth.
- Jonathan BILLINGER has a photograph of South Elkington on Geo-graph, taken in 2007.
- See our touring page for visitor services.
- A Reading Room and Institute was opened in the village in 1905.
- Elkington Hall, was the seat of the Rev. William SMYTH in 1871. The Hall was built of brick in 1842 in the Italian style.
- Elkington Hall was demolished in 1970. Read what Antony BARBER had to say about the Hall.
- Thorpe Hall, originally built in 1584 by Sir John BOLLE, was once owned by James BIRCH, who mortgaged the hall in 1759. The mortgage was purchased by the Rev. William CHAPLIN, who bought the house in 1825. It was restored in the 1980s and still stands.
- There is a good book which details Thorpe Hall: "Lincolnshire County Houses & Their Families", by Terrence R. LEACH, 1980.
- The national grid reference is TF 2988.
- 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.
RAF South Elkington was a wireless telegraphy station in World War II. There was no airfield.
Kate JEWELL has a photograph of the War Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in 2006.
John EMERSON, who retains the copyright, provides these photographs of the war memorial at South Elkington:
John Emerson also supplies this list of names off of the memorial:
To the glory of God and to the immortal memory of the glorious dead connected with Elkington who gave their lives for home and country in the Great War 1914-1919 and whose names are inscribed below. Lest we forget.
| Rank |
Name |
Unit |
Died |
Notes |
| Capt |
Francis William BURKINSHAW |
R. F. A. |
|
|
| Lieut |
Henry SHARPLEY |
R. F. A. |
|
| Private |
James Henry Ormond LAMMIN |
1st East Lancs Regt |
|
| Private |
Charles BROOKS |
1/6 Seaforth Highlanders |
|
| Private |
Henry Paul LANE |
2nd Coldstream Guards |
|
| Trooper |
Edgar Allen MAUGHAM |
20th Hussars |
|
| Private |
John William GADSBY |
1/8 West Yorks Regt |
|
| Private |
George GRIMOLDBY |
2nd Notts & Derby Regt |
|
| Private |
Alfred Ernest SRADLOCK |
1st Notts & Derby Regt |
|
| Private |
Herbert ABBOTT |
2/S Linc Regt |
|
| Private |
Edwin HUDSON |
11TR Linc Regt |
|
| Private |
William Whitlam LAMMIN |
2nd Linc Regt |
|
| Private |
George ROBINSON |
2nd Linc Regt |
|
| Private |
John TUXWORTH |
5th Linc Regt |
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- Ekwall's "Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names" (4th Edition, 1977), tells us that Elkington is mentioned in the Domesday Book: "Alchinton", and the name is cited in c1115 "Helchingtuna", 1205 "Northalkinton" and 1209 "Sudhelkinton".
- Acthorpe Top, a hamlet in the parish, is always pronounced "Agthorpe" by the locals.
- This place was an ancient parish in Lincolnshire and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
- The parish was in the Wold division (later: Marsh division) of the ancient Louth Eske Wapentake in the East Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
- For today's district governance, see the East Lindsey District Council.
- After the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act reforms, the parish became part of the Louth Poorlaw Union.
- Bastardy cases would be heard in the Louth petty session hearings every other Wednesday.
| Year |
Inhabitants |
| 1801 |
158 |
| 1831 |
271 |
| 1841 |
273 |
| 1871 |
357 |
| 1881 |
356 |
| 1891 |
366 |
| 1901 |
355 |
| 1911 |
351 |
- A Public Elementary School (mixed) was built here in 1877 to serve both North and South Elkington. It could hold 128 children.
- For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.
Last updated on 9-April-2015
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