Candlesby

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

• At the Domesday survey, there were two churches here, but the site of one of them is unknown.
• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Benedict. It fell into ruin and was pulled down and rebuilt of brick in 1838 on the same site.
• The church seats about 120.
• There is a photograph of St. Benedict's church on the Wendy PARKINSON Church Photos web site.
• Here is a photo of the church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):

• We have a small extract from the parish register. Your additions are welcome.
• The Anglican parish register dates from 1753 for baptisms and burials, 1755 for marriages.
• The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Bolingbroke Deanery to make your search easier.
• Kelly's 1913 Directory of Lincolnshire places the parish in the South Hill rural Deanery.
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.

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

This village and parish lies about 126 miles north of London and 5 miles east of Spilsby. The parish covers a little over 1,000 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, Candlesby is on the A158 Trunk Road between Horncastle and Skegness.
• See the Lincolnshire Touring and Holidays page on this site.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• Candlesby Hall was the residence of John Franklin RAWNSLEY in 1912.
• Cadwell Hall was unoccupied in 1900.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF455675 (Lat/Lon: 53.184487, 0.175781), Candlesby 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 the Candlesby War Memorial brass plaque and a Roll of Honour in the church, and the names on them, see the Roll of Honour site.

Steve MORSE tells us about this Candlesby lad: "Private G W DAWSON's grave at Menin Road South Military Cemetery, Ypres. SDGW has George William born Candlesby Lincs, enlisted Louth, abode ( Kensington Middx)."

• The parish was in the ancient Wold Division of the Candleshoe Wapentake in the East Lindsey division in the parts of Lindsey.
• Kelly's 1913 Directory places the parish, perhaps erroneously, in the South Lindsey division.
• The citizens of Candlesby have decided not to have a formal Parish Council, but do vote on civic and political issues at periodic Parish Meetings.
• For today's district governance, see the East Lindsey District Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Spilsby petty session hearings every other week.
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, the parish became part of the Spilsby Poor Law Union.

Year	Inhabitants
1801	172
1831	216
1851	245
1871	235
1881	247
1891	236
1911	177

• A National School (originally a Church of England School) was erected here in 1872 to hold up to 48 children.
• See our Schools page for more information on researching school records.