Lissington

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

• The parish was in the Market Rasen sub-district of the Caistor 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 John the Baptist.
   
• The church was restored in 1895 and again in 1911-12.
   
• The church is a Grade II listed building with British Heritage.
   
• The church seats 100.
   
• Richard CROFT has a wintertime photograph of St. John's Church taken in January, 2013.
   
• Here is a photo of St. John's Church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1562.
   
• There are 301 burials listed in the National Burial Index (NBI) covering 1813-1900.
   
• The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Westwold Deanery to make your search easier.
   
• The Wesleyan Methodists and the United Methodists each had a small chapel here. For information and assistance in researching these chapels, see our non-conformist religions page.
   
• Jonathan THACKER has a photograph of one of the Methodist Chapels taken in December, 2012.
   
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.

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

This village and parish are 4 miles south of Market Rasen and 4 miles north of Wragby. The parish covers just over 1,500 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• J. THOMAS has a photograph of the Village Sign on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2014. Perhaps they could use your artistic talent and marketing savy to creat a more enticing sign.
   
• Visit our touring page for visitor services.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• There is a photograph of the White Hart Public House taken by Glyn DRURY in 2010.
   
• And another White Hart P. H. taken by John FIRTH in 2012.
   
• The White Hart Public House provided a centre for community gossip and communication. Individuals' names associated with the Inn from directories are:

There are no lodgers at the Inn in the 1871 census (R.G. 10/3426 folio 55), but there is one visitor:

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF109834 (Lat/Lon: 53.336203, -0.335598), Lissington 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.

• In the 1086 Domesday Book, the village is given as Lessintone.
  [A. D. Mills, "A Dictionary of English Place-Names," Oxford University Press, 1991].

• This place was an ancient parish in county Lincoln and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish was in the western division of the ancient Wraggoe Wapentake in the West Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
   
• In March, 1887, this parish gave up a few of its fields to enlarge Buslingthorpe Civil Parish.
   
• The citizens of this parish have elected to forgo a formal Parish Council and instead hold periodic Parish Meetings for all the residents to discuss civic and political issues.
   
• A 1900 Kelly's Directory shows the parish being in the East Lindsey division of the parts of Lindsey.
   
• Today's district governance is provided by the West Lindsey District Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Wragby petty session hearings.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, this parish became part of the Caistor Poor Law Union.

Year	Inhabitants
1801	153
1831	182
1841	186
1871	289
1881	259
1891	220
1901	202
1911	199

• A small Public Elementary School was built here in 1854. In 1911, it had an average attendance of 42 students. The school closed in December, 1950.
   
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.