Place:Roxby Cum Risby, Lincolnshire, England

source: Family History Library Catalog

From A Vision of Britain through Time

• Roxby cum Risby has been considered a civil parish since 1717. It was originally situated in the Manby Wapentake. In 1894 it was made part of Glanford Brigg Rural District in Parts of Lindsey and was made an Urban District in 1936. During the Humberside Era (1974-1996) it was in the Glanford District and on the abolition of Humberside it joined the unitary authority of North Lincolnshire within the ceremonial county of Lincolnshire.

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Roxby cum Risby is a civil parish forming part of the district of North Lincolnshire in Lincolnshire, England.

The main settlement is Roxby. Smaller settlements include Dragonby, Sawcliffe, High Risby and Low Risby.

From GENUKI:

"Roxby with Risby (or "Roxby cum Risby") is a pair of villages that make up a single parish in the north of Lincolnshire. Both villages lie west of the old Roman Road known as Ermine Street, about 9 miles WSW of Barton on Humber and just north of Scunthorpe. Branches of the Old River Ancholme flow between the villages. The parish of Appleby borders on the south and east and Winterton lies only a mile to the north. The parish covers about 4,900 acres of land and also includes the hamlets of Sawcliffe and Dragonby."

Roxby

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Roxby is a village in North Lincolnshire, England. It is situated approximately 4 miles (6 km) north from Scunthorpe and 1 mile (1.6 km) south-east from Winterton on the A1077. Roxby stands on a prominent part of the Lincoln Cliff and overlooks the Humber Estuary.

Roxby has less than 500 inhabitants, and forms part of the civil parish of Roxby cum Risby.