Authorpe

• The parish was in the Withern sub-district of the Louth Registration District.
• Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Margaret.
• The church was rebuilt in 1848.
• The church was reroofed and restored in 1884.
• The church seated only about 90 people.
• The Diocese of Lincoln declared St. Margaret's Church redundant in July, 1980. In 1982 the church was demolished and the site used to expand the churchyard.
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of St. Margaret's Churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2008.

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1558.
• The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Calcewaith and Candleshoe Deanery to make your search easier.
• The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here in 1862. For information and assistance in researching these chapels, see our non-conformist religions page.
• Michael PATTERSON has a photograph of the Methodist Church on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2006.
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.

• The parish was in the Withern sub-district of the Louth Registration District.
• Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which began in July, 1837.

This village and parish are 135 miles north of London and midway between Louth and Alford. The parish of Authorpe covers about 941 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, the village lies just south off of the A157 which travels between Louth and Mablethorpe.
• See our touring page for visitor services.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Authorpe to another place.

• In addition to grain crops, the parish was known for its bricks and tiles.
• By 1871, the Great Northern Railway's East Lincolnshire Line had a station here.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF399809 (Lat/Lon: 53.306572, 0.098138), Authorpe which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

• This place was an ancient parish of Lincolnshire and became a modern Civil Parish when those were incorporated.
• In August, 1882, this parish was reduced in size by transferring a portion of land to Muckton Civil Parish.
• The parish was in the ancient Louth Eske Wapentake in the East Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
• The citizens of Authorpe parish have elected, due to the small population, to have periodic Parish Meetings rather than have a formal Parish COuncil.
• For today's district governance, see the East Lindsey District Council.

• Bastardy cases were held in the Louth petty session hearings every other Wednesday.
• In 1708, Thomas TAYLOR left an annual grant of 30 Shillings for the poor.
• In 1832, the open fields (about 120 acres) were enclosed.
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, this parish became part of the Louth Poor Law Union.

Year	Inhabitants
1801	85
1811	94
1831	121
1841	117
1871	186
1881	159
1891	119
1901	125
1911	130
1921	110
1931	112

• There was a small Dame School for infants here.
• Older children attended school in nearby Withern, Aby and South Reston.
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.