Farforth

The Library at Louth will prove useful in your research.

• Chris ? has a photograph of some of the gravestones at St. Peter's churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2013.
   
• Chris ? also has a photograph of the gravestone of Henry Charles ALLENBY who died at age 22 from drowning on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2013.
   
• Henry Charles ALLENBY was buried 3 June 1822 at Farforth. He was "possibly" the sone of Samuel ALLENBY who was buried here in 1824.

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

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Peter.
   
• There was an earlier church here, but it was torn down prior to 1861.
   
• The church was rebuilt in Early English style in 1861 of stones from the original structure. The church was renovated in 1904.
   
• The church seats 80.
   
• The church is a Grade II structure with English Heritage.
   
• There is a photograph of St. Peter's Church on the Wendy PARKINSON web site under "Yet More Lincolnshire".
   
• Here is a photo of St. Peter's Church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1784.
   
• The LFHS has published several marriage indexes for the Bolingbroke Deanery to make your search easier.
   
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.

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

Farforth is both a village and a parish 6 miles south of Louth. The parish covers almost 2,000 acres and includes the hamlet of Maidenwell.

If you are planning a visit:

• Visit our touring page for more sources.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

In 1568 Sir William John OSLEAR lived in Farforth Hall.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF320794 (Lat/Lon: 53.295556, -0.020962), Farforth 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, but only became a modern Civil Parish in 1936.
   
• The parish was in the Wold division of the ancient Louth Eske Wapentake in the East Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
   
• This parish was incorporated as a modern Civil Parish under the name "Maidenwell Civil Parish" in 1936.
   
• This citizens of this parish have elected to forgo a formal Parish Council, but do hold periodic Parish Meetings to dicuss civic and political issues.
   
• For today's district governance, see the East Lindsey District Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Louth petty session hearings in the Louth Courthouse every other Wednesday.
   
• In 1719 Mr. Charles HUMPHREY left the interest of £15 for the poor. (Some sources say only 15 Shillings per year.)
   
• After the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act reforms, the parish became part of the Louth Poorlaw Union.

Year	Inhabitants
1801	52
1831	91
1841	92
1871	109
1881	143
1891	134
1901	134
1911	107

• A School Board was formed in 1885 for the united parishes of Farforth, Oxcombe and Ruckland.
   
• A Public Elementary School was built here in 1887 for up to 42 children.
   
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.