Bishop Norton

The Caistor Library is an excellent resource with a Local History section and a Family History section.

Alternatively, you can use the Market Rasen Library as a resource.

richard CROFT has a photograph of a COPPER BEECH tree the dominates th hurch graveyard on Geo-grpah, taken in July, 2021.

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

• The Anglican parish church was dedicated to Saint Peter.
   
• The parish church of St Peter's is a relatively modern construction, possibly from about 1737, but with earlier artefacts within the fabric. It is unclear whether an earlier church stood on the site of the current one, but it is certain that a church did exist here from the earliest days of the bishop's manor.
   
• The church was restored in 1892.
   
• The church seats 200 people.
   
• The church is a Grade II* listed building with British Heritage.
   
• There is a photograph of the parish church on the CurrantBun Church Photos web site.
   
• David WRIGHT has a photograph of the church on Geo-graph taken 20 October, 2005.
   
• Here is a photo of the church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):

• The parish register dates from 1598 and includes entries from Atterby.
   
• The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Yarborough Deanery to make your search easier.
   
• The Free Methodists built a chapel here in 1865 and the Primitive Methodists built their's here in 1872.
   
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• The parish was in the Market Rasen sub-district of the Caistor Registration District.
   
• Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which began in July, 1837.

Bishop Norton is a parish and village in the north of Lincolnshire, near the Ancholme naviagtion Canal. It is 8 miles northwest of Market Rasen and 13 miles east of Gainsborough. Atterby is a township just north of the village, which is part of this parish.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A15 trunk road north out of Lincoln and turn right (east) onto the A631 trunk road. After about a mile, you will be passing through Glentham. Turn north (left) and follow the signs for Bishop Norton.
   
• Visit our touring page for more sources.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• The most notable house in Bishop Norton is Norton Place. It is listed as Grade I and is by the York Architect John Carr. Norton Place is set on the edge of plantations in former parkland which was laid out in the 1770s. The house was built for John Harrison MP by John Carr in 1776.
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• Norton Place, was the property of Sir Hugh Arthur Henry CHOLMELEY, baronet, in 1900. It is about 1.5 miles south-west of the village.
   
• Historically this parish has included three manors. The oldest of these was the manor of the bishop.
   
• the manor of Crossholme seems to date from the Twelfth century.
   
• Crossholme Manor is also in this parish. It is the seat of the ancient LAKE family.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK984926 (Lat/Lon: 53.42103, -0.520777), Bishop Norton 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.

• The village had a Cold War ROC (Royal Observation Corps) post. All surface features remain intact but the low mound on which the post stood has been removed leaving the ventilation shaft on top of an 18" concrete pillar and the access shaft on 8 courses of bricks. The ventilation louvres are missing and there is some damage to the ventilation shaft. The hatch is locked with a padlock and chain.
   
• Alan MURRAY_RUST has a photograph of the ROC vents on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2007.

For a photograph of the Bishop Norton War Memorial (It's the church Lych gate) and the names on the stone tablets, see the Roll of Honour site.

• This place was an ancient parish in Lincolnshire and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish was in the ancient Aslacoe Wapentake in the West Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
   
• Atterby township was in the Soke of Kirton.
   
• Today's district governance is provided by the West Lindsey District Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Lincoln Bail and Close petty session hearings.
   
• A Mr. GELDER, date unknown, left 5 shillings a year for the poor of this parish.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Caistor Poor Law Union.

Year	Inhabitants
1801	319
1831	426
1861	364
1871	468
1891	421
1911	419

• A National School was built here, by subscription, in 1872. It could hold 100 children.
   
• Jo and Steve TURNER hava a photograph of the Old School on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2017.
   
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.