Gayton le Wold

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• The parish was in the Binbrook 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.
   
• The church was rebuilt of brick in 1775 n the Perpendicular Style.
   
• The church was restored in 1888 and a western porch was added..
   
• The church is a Grade II listed buidling with British Heritage.
   
• The church seats only about 60 people.
   
• Grimblethorpe was an extra-parochial patch of 632 acres of land. It became a civil parish in 1857, but remained an extra-parochial ecclesiastical parish. The residents of this land attended church in Gayton le Wold.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of St. Peter's Church on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2010.
   
• Here is a photo of Saint Peter's Church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
   

• The parish register dates from 1777.
   
• The LFHS has published several marriage and burial indexes for the Horncastle Deanery to make your search easier.
   
• The United Methodists (later Free Methodists) built a chapel here in 1854. The Wesleyan Methodists built one in 1869.
   
• For information and assistance in researching these chapels, see our non-conformist religions page.
   
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.

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

Gayton le Wold is a parish on the River Bain, situate between Louth and Burgh on Bain, 6 miles west of Louth and 3 miles north of Donington on Bain. The parish is in the Wold Hills and covers about 1,160 acres.

Gayton le Wold, as a village, is too small to appear on most small scale (large area) maps. If you are planning a visit:

• By car, take the A157 north-east out of Wragby toward Louth. Just east of Burgh on Bain, turn south. About a mile south of Burgh on Bain and you are in Gayton le Wold parish.
   
• See our touring page for visitor services.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Gayton le Wold to another place.

• Grimblethorpe Hall is about 3 miles SE of Ludford and about 6 miles west of Louth. The hall bears the arms of the MADDISON family.
   
• The Hall is a Grade II listed buidling with British Heritage.
   
• There is a Gayton Manor mentioned in Kelly's 1900 Directory of Lincolnshire, but not described. It is the residence of Robert R. KIRKHAM at that time.
   
• The Manor House is a Grade II listed buidling with British Heritage.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF237861 (Lat/Lon: 53.356955, -0.142822), Gayton le Wold 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 and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish was in the Wold division of the ancient Louth Eske Wapentake in the East Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
   
• In April, 1936, this parish was enlarged by 861 acres gained when Biscathorpe Civil Parish was abolished.
   
• That same month, this parish was enlarged by 632 acres gained when Grimblethorpe Civil Parish was abolished.
   
• For today's district governance, see the East Lindsey District Council.

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

Year	Inhabitants
1801	67
1831	127
1841	125
1851	114
1871	115
1881	151
1891	118
1901	101
1911	120

• The children of this parish attended school in Burgh-on-Bain.
   
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.