Martin Dales

• The parish was in 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:
   

• Saint Hugh's iron mission church, in Martin Dales, was erected in 1891 as a Chapel of Ease to Holy Trinity Church.

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

• The parish was in 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.
   

Martin is both a village and a parish, and lies 12 miles north-north-east of Sleaford and 14 miles south-east of Lincoln. This area of Lincolnshire is very, very flat.

If you are planning a visit:

• Ian PATERSON has a photograph of the Kirkstead Bridge on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2008.
   
• Visit our touring page for more sources.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer 273 map, which has 2.5 inches to the mile scale.
   
• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF164622 (Lat/Lon: 53.144248, -0.260539), Martin Dales 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.

• Richard CROFT has a photograph of the War Memorial outside the church hall on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2007.
   

• In 1894, a portion of this parish was taken to help form the new civil parish of Woodhall Spa (by Local Government Board Order No. 31,760, dated Sept. 17, 1894).
   
• The parish was in the south division of the ancient Langoe Wapentake in the North Kesteven district in the parts of Kesteven.
   
• 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 Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, the parish became part of the Sleaford Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1801	41
1831	60
1841	58
1871	82
1911	55

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