Claxby (Well)

The Community Library at Alford has a local history archive that will prove useful in your research.

• The parish was in the Alford 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:

Census Year	Piece No.
1851	H.O. 107 / 2110
1861	R.G. 9 / 2377
1871	R.G. 10 / 3395
1891	R.G. 12 / 2605

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Andrew.
   
• The present white brick building replaced an older thatched structure. It was built in 1846.
   
• The church was restored in 1897.
   
• The church seated about 110 people.
   
• The church was declared redundant by the Diocese of Lincoln in February, 1990. In October of that same year it was sold for use as a studio/workshop.
   
• Here is a photo of the church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1699.
   
• The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Calcewaith and Candleshoe Deanery to make your search easier.
   
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.

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

Claxby is a village and a parish about 3 miles south of Alford. The parish covers about 1,000 acres. Well parish is to the north and Willoughby parish to the southeast.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the B1196 arterial road south out of Alford to reach Claxby.
   
• See the Lincolnshire Touring and Holidays page on this site.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Claxby (Well) to another place.

• Near the village is evidence of a large Roman camp and a barrow.

• The Manor House, built in 1760, was the seat of the ancient WELL family, and was for a long time the property of the DASHWOODs. It became the vicarage house in 1830.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF451714 (Lat/Lon: 53.219448, 0.171919), Claxby (Well) 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 Claxby War Memorial and the name on it and the monument in the churchyard, see the Roll of Honour site.

• The parish was in the Wold division of the ancient Calceworth Wapentake in the East Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
   
• Kelly's 1913 Directopry of Lincolnshire places this parish, perhaps erroneously, in the South Lindsey division of the county.
   
• You can contact the Claxby St. Andrew Parish Council regarding civic or political issues, but they are NOT staffed or funded to help you with family history searches.
   
• For today's district governance, see the East Lindsey District Council.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Alford petty session hearings every other Tuesday.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, the parish was amalgamated into the Spilsby Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1801	78
1831	101
1871	95
1881	99
1891	87
1911	85

• The children of this parish attended school in Well and Willoughby.
   
• See our Schools page for more information on researching school records.