Tupholme
- 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:
Census
Year |
Piece No. |
| 1841 |
H.O. 107 / 647 |
| 1861 |
R.G. 9 / 2365 |
| 1871 |
R.G. 10 / 3379 |
| 1891 |
R.G. 12 / 2597 |
- At the time of the Domesday Survey, there was a church in Burreth village.
- The parish once housed a Premonstratensian monastery dedicated to The Virgin Mary. It was founded under Henry II by Alan and Gilbert de NEVILLE circa 1166 AD. Some ruins are still visible.
- Check out Rod COLLINS' Tupholm Abbey tour for a few photographs.
- Gary BROTHWELL has a photograph of Tupholme Abbey ruins at Geo-graph, taken in 2010.
- The people of this parish worshiped at either Bucknall or Bardney parish churches.
- 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.
Tupholme parish lies about midway between Horncastle and Lincoln, just a little south of Gautby and north-west of Bucknall parish. The parish is just 2 miles north of the River Witham and covers just under 1,800 acres. The parish includes the "lost village" of Burreth, just north of Tupholme Hall. Burreth was apparently abandoned in the 15th century.
The village of Tupholme does not appear on an Ordnance Survey motoring atlas. If you are planning a visit:
- Take the A158 out of either Horncastle or Lincoln, then take the B1202 trunk road south from Wragby. This will take you into the area of Tupholme parish.
- Visit our touring page for visitor services.
- Ann OLE advises: "Tupholme wasn't a parish (for most of history) so it won't be listed as one in the Horncastle Deanery. It is extra parochial, was an abbey in the days before Henry VIII got at it. The people who lived there would have a choice of parishes to use - possibly Bardney, Gautby, Bucknall."
- White's 1842 Directory refers to Tupholme as "an extra-parochial township" which covers 1,795 acres. The 1882 Directory refers to Tupholme as a "churchless parish." But Kelly's 1900 Directory tells us that it is now a parish.
- Tupholme Hall was a brick mansion, erected around 1720 by the VYNER family of Gautby.
- Tupholme Hall was occupied by Robert Charles de GREY VYNER, who was lord of the manor, in 1912.
- The Hall has since been demolished.
- The national grid reference is TF 1469.
- 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.
- "Tup" is an ancient word for sheep and "holme" is Old Scandanvian for island or a high place in a marsh.
- Tupholme was an extra-parochial area before it became a parish.
- The parish was in the West division of the ancient Wraggoe Wapentake in the East Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
- The parish was also in the Soke of Horncastle.
- For today's district governance, see the East Lindsey District Council.
- Bastardy cases would be heard in the Wragby petty session hearings on the first Thursday of every month.
- All the poor children of this parish were entitled to an education at Bardney Free School.
- As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, the parish became part of the Horncastle Poor Law Union.
| Year |
Inhabitants |
| 1801 |
71 |
| 1811 |
78 |
| 1821 |
71 |
| 1831 |
68 |
| 1841 |
74 |
| 1851 |
73 |
| 1871 |
93 |
| 1881 |
93 |
| 1891 |
94 |
| 1901 |
83 |
| 1911 |
72 |
- In 1842, the poor children of this parish attended school at Bardney Free School. Later, some students attended school in Bucknall parish as well.
- For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.
Last updated on 16-April-2015
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