High Toynton

You will find the nearby Horncastle Library of great use in your research.

• Richard CROFT has a photograph of St. John the Baptist's churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2005.

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

Census Year	Piece No.
1841	H.O. 107 / 647
1851	H.O. 107 / 2108
1861	R.G. 9 / 2369 & 2371
1871	R.G. 10 / 3383
1891	R.G. 12 / 2599

• The local Anglican Church is dedicated to Saint John the Baptist.
   
• An older church from the 13th century was torn down and a new one erected of sandstone on the same site in 1872.
   
• The church is a Grade II structure with English Heritage.
   
• The church tower collapsed in January 2020. There is an update at High Toynton Church.
   
• The church seats 100.
   
• Gary BROTHWELL has a photograph of Saint John's Church on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2010.
   
• Here is a photo of St. John the Baptist's Church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1715.
   
• The LFHS has published several marriage and burial indexes for the Horncastle Deanery to make your search easier.
   
• The Wesleyan Methodists had a small chapel here, built in 1840. 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 Tetford sub-district of the Horncastle Registration District.
   
• Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which started in July, 1837.
   

High Toynton is both a village and a parish in the Wold hills, 1.5 miles east of Horncastle. Low Toynton parish lies to the north and Mareham on the Hill parish to the south. The parish only covers about 1,010 acres. The parish had a substantial allotment of land in Wildmore Fen, to the south.

If you are planning a visit:

• The village lies south of the A158, Horncastle to Skegness road, east of Horncastle.
   
• Watch for this SIGN provided by Patrica McCRORY.
   
• On the other hand, Colin PYLE provides a photograph of a Sign on the A158 on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2013.
   
• See our touring page for visitor services.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• In 1842, the principal landowner was the Bishop of Carlisle. Others included W. H. L. ROLLESTON, Henry Fynes CLINTON and the BABINGTON, MADDISON, TOPLIS, COPPING and MASKELL families.
   
• In 1882, White's Directory tells us that the principal landowners were the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, E. L. ROLLASTON (sic), the CLINTON and MADDISON families and several small freeholders.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF284700 (Lat/Lon: 53.211173, -0.078707), High Toynton 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.

• High Toynton is one of the "Thankful Villages" since no resident was killed during World War One.
   
• David HITCHBORNE has a photograph of The Salute The Soldier plaque in St. John's Church on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2004.
   
• On December 15th, 1941, a flying accident took the life of an RCAF pilot. You can read more about him at the American War Memorials Overseas site.

• White's 1842 Directory lists the following surnames in the parish: COPPING, MADDISON, MASKELL, MAWER, POCKLINGTON, RICHARDSON, SMITH and TOPLIS.
   
• White's 1872 Directory lists the following surnames in the parish: BETTS, BLANCHARD, BOUCHER, BUTLER, COCKING, COOK, COPPIN, DAWSON, DUDDLES, GENTEL, HUGHES, LEVERTON, LONGSTAFF, MADDISON, NUNDY, RICHARDSON, ROBINSON, SINCLAIR and SORFLEET.
   
• White's 1882 Directory lists the following surnames in the parish: BANCROFT, BLANCHARD, BOUCHER, COPPIN, DAWSON, DUDDLES, HALL, HARRISON, HUGHES, LEVERTON, LONGSTAFF, MADDISON, NUNDY, ROBINSON, ROSE, SINCLAIR and SORFLEET.
   

• This place was an ancient parish in Lincoln county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish was in the ancient Horncastle Soke in the East Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
   
• The citizens of High Toynton have elected to forgo a formal Parish Council, but they hold periodic Parish Meetings to discuss civic or political issues.
   
• For today's district governance, see the East Lindsey District Council.
   

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

Year	Inhabitants
1801	93
1811	121
1821	159
1831	164
1841	120
1851	136
1881	133
1891	124
1911	125

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