|
Name | Sleaford Rural |
Type | Rural district |
Located in | Kesteven, England (1894 - 1931) |
Also located in | Lincolnshire, England |
See also | East Kesteven Rural, Kesteven, England | rural district that absorbed most parishes in 1931 | | North Kesteven Rural, Kesteven, England | rural district that absorbed some parishes in 1931 | | West Kesteven Rural, Kesteven, England | rural district that absorbed a small area in 1931 | | North Kesteven District, Lincolnshire, England | district municipality covering the area since 1974 |
Sleaford Rural District was located in Kesteven, Parts (division) of Lincolnshire, England from 1894 until 1931. In 1931 the rural district was abolished under a County Review Order carried out after the Local Government Act of 1929 (see Wikipedia). The parishes of Sleaford Rural District were divided between East Kesteven Rural District and North Kesteven Rural District with a very small portion going to West Kesteven Rural District. In the transition a number of pairs of small parishes were immediately merged with their neighbours. (Source: A Vision of Britain through Time.) See notes of individual cases below.
Parishes
Parish | Description | Duration | Notes
| Anwick | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1894 - 1931 | to East Kesteven Rural District in 1931
| Asgarby (near Sleaford) | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1894 - 1931 | to East Kesteven Rural District in 1931 as Asgarby and Howell
| Ashby de la Launde | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1894 - 1931 | to East Kesteven Rural District in 1931 as Ashby de la Launde and Bloxholme
| Aswarby | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1894 - 1931 | to East Kesteven Rural District in 1931 as Aswarby and Swarby
| Aunsby | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1894 - 1931 | to East Kesteven Rural District in 1931 as Aunsby and Dembleby
| Billinghay | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1894 - 1931 | to East Kesteven Rural District in 1931
| Blankney | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1894 - 1931 | to East Kesteven Rural District in 1931
| Bloxholme | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1894 - 1931 | to East Kesteven Rural District in 1931 as Ashby de la Launde and Bloxholm
| Brauncewell | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1894 - 1931 | to East Kesteven Rural District in 1931
| Burton Pedwardine | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1894 - 1931 | to East Kesteven Rural District in 1931
| Byards Leap | extraparochial, civil parish | 1894 - 1931 | to East Kesteven Rural District in 1931 as Cranwell and Byards Leap
| Cranwell | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1894 - 1931 | to East Kesteven Rural District in 1931 as Cranwell and Byards Leap
| Culverthorpe | chapelry, civil parish | 1894 - 1931 | to East Kesteven Rural District in 1931 as Culverthorpe and Kelby
| Dembleby | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1894 - 1931 | to East Kesteven Rural District in 1931 as Aunsby and Dembleby
| Digby | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1894 - 1931 | to East Kesteven Rural District in 1931
| Dogdyke | township, civil parish | 1894 - 1931 | to East Kesteven Rural District in 1931
| Dorrington | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1894 - 1931 | to East Kesteven Rural District in 1931
| Evedon | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1894 - 1931 | to East Kesteven Rural District in 1931 as Ewerby and Evedon
| Ewerby | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1894 - 1931 | to East Kesteven Rural District in 1931 as Ewerby and Evedon
| Great Hale | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1894 - 1931 | to East Kesteven Rural District in 1931
| Haverholme | extraparochial, civil parish | 1894 - 1931 | to East Kesteven Rural District in 1931 as part of Ewerby and Evedon
| Heckington | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1894 - 1931 | to East Kesteven Rural District in 1931
| Helpringham | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1894 - 1931 | to East Kesteven Rural District in 1931
| Howell | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1894 - 1931 | to East Kesteven Rural District in 1931 as Asgarby and Howell
| Kelby | chapelry, civil parish | 1894 - 1931 | to East Kesteven Rural District in 1931 as Culverthorpe and Kelby
| Kirkby Green | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1894 - 1931 | to East Kesteven Rural District in 1931 as part of Scopwick
| Kirkby la Thorpe | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1894 - 1931 | to East Kesteven Rural District in 1931
| Leadenham | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1894 - 1931 | to North Kesteven Rural District in 1931
| Leasingham | civil parish | 1894 - 1931 | to East Kesteven Rural District in 1931
| Little Hale | township, civil parish | 1894 - 1931 | to East Kesteven Rural District in 1931
| Martin | township, civil parish | 1894 - 1931 | to East Kesteven Rural District in 1931
| Newton | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1894 - 1931 | to East Kesteven Rural District in 1931 as Newton and Haceby
| North Kyme | township, civil parish | 1894 - 1931 | to East Kesteven Rural District in 1931
| North Rauceby | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1894 - 1931 | to East Kesteven Rural District in 1931
| Osbournby | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1894 - 1931 | to East Kesteven Rural District in 1931
| Rowston | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1894 - 1931 | to East Kesteven Rural District in 1931
| Roxholme | hamlet, civil parish | 1894 - 1931 | to East Kesteven Rural District in 1931
| Scopwick | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1894 - 1931 | to East Kesteven Rural District in 1931
| Scott Willoughby | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1894 - 1931 | to East Kesteven Rural District in 1931 as Aunsby and Dembleby
| Scredington | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1894 - 1931 | to East Kesteven Rural District in 1931
| Silk Willoughby | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1894 - 1931 | to East Kesteven Rural District in 1931
| South Kyme | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1894 - 1931 | to East Kesteven Rural District in 1931
| South Rauceby | chapelry, parish (ancient), civil parish | 1894 - 1931 | to East Kesteven Rural District in 1931
| Spanby | chapelry, civil parish | 1894 - 1931 | to East Kesteven Rural District in 1931 as part of Threekingham
| Swarby | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1894 - 1931 | to East Kesteven Rural District in 1931 as Aswarby and Swarby
| Swaton | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1894 - 1931 | to East Kesteven Rural District in 1931
| Temple Bruer | civil parish | 1894 - 1931 | to East Kesteven Rural District in 1931
| Thorpe Tilney | township, civil parish | 1894 - 1931 | to East Kesteven Rural District in 1931 as part of Timberland
| Threekingham | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1894 - 1931 | to East Kesteven Rural District in 1931
| Timberland | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1894 - 1931 | to East Kesteven Rural District in 1931
| Walcott near Billinghay | township/chapelry/civil parish | 1894 - 1931 | to East Kesteven Rural District in 1931
| Walcot near Folkingham | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1894 - 1931 | to East Kesteven Rural District in 1931
| Welbourn | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1894 - 1931 | to North Kesteven Rural District in 1931
| Wellingore | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1894 - 1931 | to North Kesteven Rural District in 1931
| Wilsford | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1894 - 1931 | to East Kesteven Rural District in 1931
|
Research Tips
Lincolnshire is very low-lying and land had to be drained for agriculture to be successful. The larger drainage channels, many of which are parallel to each other, became boundaries between parishes. Many parishes are long and thin for this reason.
There is much fenland in Lincolnshire, particularly in the Boston and Horncastle areas. Fenlands tended to be extraparochial before the mid 1850s, and although many sections were identified with names and given the title "civil parish", little information has been found about them. Many appear to be abolished in 1906, but the parish which adopts them is not given in A Vision of Britain through Time. Note the WR category Lincolnshire Fenland Settlements which is an attempt to organize them into one list.
From 1889 until 1974 Lincolnshire was divided into three administrative counties: Parts of Holland, Parts of Kesteven and Parts of Lindsey. These formal names do not fit with modern grammatical usage, but that is what they were, nonetheless. In 1974 the northern section of Lindsey, along with the East Riding of Yorkshire, became the short-lived county of Humberside. In 1996 Humberside was abolished and the area previously in Lincolnshire was made into the two "unitary authorities" of North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire. The remainder of Lincolnshire was divided into "non-metropolitan districts" or "district municipalities" in 1974. Towns, villages and parishes are all listed under Lincolnshire, but the present-day districts are also given so that places in this large county can more easily be located and linked to their wider neighbourhoods. See the WR placepage Lincolnshire, England and the smaller divisions for further explanation.
- Maps provided online by A Vision of Britain through Time show all the parishes and many villages and hamlets. (Small local reorganization of parishes took place in the 1930s led to differences between the latter two maps.):
-
- FindMyPast now has a large collection of Lincolnshire baptisms, banns, marriages and burials now available to search by name, year, place and parent's names. This is a pay website. (blog dated 16 Sep 2016)
- GENUKI's page on Lincolnshire's Archive Service gives addresses, phone numbers, webpages for all archive offices, museums and libraries in Lincolnshire which may store old records and also presents a list entitled "Hints for the new researcher" which may include details of which you are not aware. These suggestions are becoming more and more outdated, but there's no telling what may be expected in a small library.
- GENUKI also has pages of information on individual parishes, particularly ecclesiastical parishes. The author may just come up with morsels not supplied in other internet-available sources.
- Deceased Online now has records for 11 cemeteries and two crematoria in Lincolnshire. This includes Grimsby's Scartho Road cemetery, Scartho Road crematorium, and Cleethorpes cemetery, council records for the City of Lincoln and Gainsborough, and older church records from The National Archives for St Michael's in Stamford, and St Mark's in Lincoln, dating back to 1707. This is a pay website.
|
|