Dogdyke

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• The parish was in the Swineshead sub-district of the Boston Registration District.
   
• In 1894, the parish was re-assigned to the Billinghay sub-district of the Sleaford Registration District.
   
• Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:

• The inhabitants attended the Anglican parish church in Chapel Hill.

• The LFHS has published several marriage and burial indexes for the Lafford Deanery to make your search easier.
   
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.

• The parish was in the Swineshead sub-district of the Boston Registration District.
   
• In 1894, the parish was re-assigned to the Billinghay sub-district of the Sleaford Registration District.
   
• Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which began in July, 1837.

This village and parish are 118 miles north of London, 10.5 miles northwest of Boston, and about a mile south of Coningsby. The parish covers about 730 acres.

The village is just east of the River Witham. Tattershall Bridge is a hamlet in this parish. If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile take the A153 arterial road southwest out of Coningsby toward Sleaford. Turn left (east) after about one and a half miles toward Tattershall Bridge and Dogdyke.
   
• See our touring page for more sources.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• The land here used to be low marsh or fenland. In 1841 a steam engine of 35 horse-power was installed to drain the water into the river, rendering the land useful for crops and grazing.
   
• The parish had a station on the Boston and Lincoln branch of the Great Northern railway. The station was on the east bank of the Witham, in Coningsby parish.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of the Dogdyke Pumping Station on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2016.
   
• David HITCHBORNE has a photograph of The Hornblower on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2004.

• In 1900, the principal landowners were the trustees of the late James MAYFIELD, John James WHEAT and Godfrey Charles WHEAT.
   
• In 1912, George KEEBLE of Peterborough was the principal landowner.

• See our "Maps" page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF201547 (Lat/Lon: 53.075741, -0.208641), Dogdyke 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 men and women who served in WWI and WWII are listed on the Billinghay War Memorial plaques in that church. See the Roll of Honour site.

• This place was an ancient Township in Lincolnshire that became a Civil Parish shortly after 1866.
   
• The parish was in the ancient Langoe Wapentake in the North Kesteven division of the county, in the parts of Kesteven.
   
• In December, 1880, a detached part of the parish was transferred to Amber Hill parish.
   
• In March, 1884, the parish was reduced to enlarge Coningsby Civil Parish. In the same deal, Dogdyke Civil Parish received some land from Coningsby Civil Parish.
   
• In April, 1931, the parish was reduced by 8 acres to enlarge South Kyme Civil Parish.
   
• Four years later, in April, 1935, the parish was enlarged by 8 acres by gaining part of Harts Ground Civil Parish.
   
• For today's district governance, see the North Kesteven District Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Sleaford petty session hearings every Monday.
   
• After the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act reforms, this parish became part of the Boston Poor Law Union.
   
• In 1894, the parish was re-assigned to the Sleaford Poor Law Union.

Year	Inhabitants
1871	239
1881	200
1891	192
1901	180
1911	174
1921	168
1931	162
1951	247

• A Board School was built at Tattershall Bridge in 1881 to hold up to 120 children.
   
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.