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"BROXHOLME, a parish in the wapentake of Lawress, parts of Lindsey, in the county of Lincoln, 6 miles to the N.W. of Lincoln. It is near the Great Northern railway. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln, of the value of £273, in the patronage of F. Robinson, Esq. The church is dedicated to All Saints."
[Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868]
by Colin Hinson ©2020
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- The parish was in the North East sub-district of the Lincoln Registration District.
- Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
Census Year | Piece No. |
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1841 | H.O. 107 / 629 |
1861 | R.G. 9 / 2363 |
1871 | R.G. 10 / 3375 |
1891 | R.G. 12 / 2596 |
- The Anglican parish church was dedicated to All Saints.
- The church was rebuilt in 1857.
- The church seated about 120.
- The church was declared redundant by the Diocese of Lincoln in March, 1990. In June of 1992 it was sold for residential use.
- Richard CROFT has a photograph of All Saints Church on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2005.
- There is a photograph of All Saints church on the Wendy PARKINSON Church Photos web site, under "Yet more Lincs churches".
- Here is a photo of All Saints church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
- The parish register dates from 1654.
- The LFHS has published several marriage indexes for the Corringham Deanery to make your search easier.
- Kelly's 1913 Directory of Lincolnshire reports that the parish is in the rural Deanery of West Lawress.
- Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.
- The parish was in the North East sub-district of the Lincoln Registration District.
- Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which began in July, 1837.
Broxholme is a parish and small town north-west of Lincoln. To the west is Saxilby parish, across the River Till. Nottinghamshire lies to the northwest. The parish covers about 1,350 acres.
If you are planning a visit:
- Find out about local bus service from Carlberry Coaches.
- See our touring page for more sources.
The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
"BROXHOLME, a parish in the wapentake of Lawress, parts of Lindsey, in the county of Lincoln, 6 miles to the N.W. of Lincoln. It is near the Great Northern railway. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln, of the value of £273, in the patronage of F. Robinson, Esq. The church is dedicated to All Saints."
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Broxholme to another place.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK909781 (Lat/Lon: 53.292076, -0.637759), Broxholme 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 in Lincolnshire and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
- The parish was in the ancient Lawress Wapentake in the West Lindsey division of the county, in the parts of Lindsey.
- Today's district governance is provided by the West Lindsey District Council.
- As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, the parish became part of the Lincoln Poor Law Union.
- Bastardy cases would be heard in the Bail and Close petty sessional hearings on the 1st and 3rd Friday of every month.
- The webpage author could find no reference to a school in this parish.
- For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.