Buslingthorpe

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

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

• J. THOMAS has a photograph of a portion of St. Michael's churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2014.

• 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 Michael.
   
• The nave and chancel were rebuilt by E.J. WILLSON in 1835 out of yellow brick but the short medieval west tower had the top part rebuilt also in the 19th century.
   
• The interior of the church was restored and reseated in 1888.
   
• The church seated about 60 people.
   
• The ichurch is a Grade II structure with English Heritage..
   
• The church at Buslingthorpe was declared redundant in 1984. It is still usually open to visitors on obtaining the key as instructed.
   
• The church is now in the care of The Churches Conservation Trust. According to Arthur Mee's, "The King's England - Lincolnshire":

"Buslingthorpe. Its modest little church, standing in a field, has two treasures from the past -- memorials of the De Buslingthorpes who were lords of this manor three centuries before the Tudor Dynasty."

• David HITCHBORNE has a photograph of St. Michael's Church on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2004.
   
• Here is a photograph of the church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1760 for burials and baptisms and from 1762 for marriages.
   
• We have a handful of entries extracted from the Buslingthorpe parish register. Your additions are welcome.
   
• The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Westwold Deanery to make your search easier.
   
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.

• 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.

This village and parish are 4 miles southwest of Market Rasen and 11.5 miles northeast of Lincoln. Two or three miles north east of Snarford and 1/2 mile east of Faldingworth lies St Michael's Church with just two or three cottages and a partially moated manor house to the east of the church. The parish covers about 1,400 acres.

The Medieval village is pretty much gone. If you are planning a visit:

• See our touring page for visitor services.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

J. HANNAN-BRIGGS has a photograph of the Odling family memorial plaque in the church on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2011.

• Richard CROFT has a photograph of the Site of Buslingthorpe village at the Geo-graph website, taken in November, 2013.
   
• The village had a station on the Lincoln, Cleethorpes and Hull branch of the Great Central railway in the late 1800s.
   

• The family of DE BUSLINGTHORPE (also seen as BOSELYNGTHORPE) held this place from circa 1170 to the 15th century. It afterwards passed to the TYRWHITT family.
   
• The manor house was gone by 1912, but traces of the moat still remain.
   
• Richard CROFT provides a photograph of Manor Farm at the Geo-graph website, taken in 2007.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF080852 (Lat/Lon: 53.352652, -0.379372), Buslingthorpe 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.

For a photograph of a War Memorial plaque in the church, see the Flickr (Under Description and Travel) web site.

These images can also be seen at the Imperial War Museum 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 Lawress or Walshcroft Wapentake (depending on date) in the West Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey
   
• The parish gained over 300 acres from surrounding parishes in 1887, bringing it up to 1,407 acres in size.
   
• The citizens of this parish have elected to forgo a formal Parish Council, but they hold periodic Parish Meetings to discuss civil and political issues.
   
• Today's district governance is provided by the West Lindsey District Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard on the 1st Tuesday each month at the Market Rasen petty session hearings.
   
• After the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act reforms, the parish became part of the Caistor Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1801	48
1841	50
1851	51
1871	57
1891	82
1911	88

• The children of the parish attended school in Faldingworth.
   
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.