North Ormsby

The Library at Louth will prove useful in your research.

• In 1863, six graves, cut out the natural chalk and partially enclosed in pieces of Limestone, were found in the churchyard. They appear to be Saxon-era burials.

• 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:

• A priory of Gildbertine nuns was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin and founded here in the reign of Stephen (1135-1154).
   
• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Helen. Some directories (Kelly's and White's) give the dedication to All Saints, but this is incorrect.
   
• The church was rebuilt in 1848 in the Early English Style.
   
• The church seats about 100 people.
   
• In the churchyard, six graves have been found, reputedly from Saxon burials.
   
• The Diocese of Lincoln declared this church redundant in December, 1980. In 1984 it was sold for residential use.
   
• Here is a photo of St. Helen's Church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1741.
   
• The LFHS has published several marriage and burial indexes for the Louth Eske Deanery to make your search easier.
   
• 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.

This village and parish are 7 miles north-west of Louth. Ludborough parish is to the north. The parish covers about 1,700 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A16 trunk road between Louth and Grimsby. The village is south of the A18 interconnect, just west of the A16.
   
• Visit our touring page for more sources.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• Chalk was once quarried in the parish.
   
• The ancient village of North Ormsby was abandoned in medieval times.
   
• The ancient village site is preserved as a "Deserted Medieval Village".
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of the deserted village area on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2006.
   
• Chris ? has an aerial photograph of The Priory at North Ormsby and the desrted Medieval Village (DMV) on Geo-graph, taken in February.
   
• In 1826, nearly half this parish was a rabbit warren.

In 1872, Erasmus SAUNDERS was one of the principal landowners of the parish.

Lt.-Colonel Robert Erasmus SAUNDERS, son of the above, was one of the principal landowners of the parish in 1919. He was born around 1853 in Hampshire and died in June 1936 in Dorset.

Chris ? has a photograph of North Ormsby Manor on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2012.

• You might like the 1906 inch-to-the-mile map of North East Lincolnshire.
   
• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF288933 (Lat/Lon: 53.420837, -0.063944), North Ormsby 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 parish is also listed as "Nun Ormsby". This may have been because of the Nunnery established here after The Conquest.

• This place was an ancient parish in Lincolnshire and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish was in the ancient Ludborough Wapentake in the East Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
   
• North Ormsby is small enough that it feels it can manage its civil and political functions via a Parish Meeting called as needed.
   
• For today's district governance, see the East Lindsey District Council.

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

Year	Inhabitants
1801	79
1831	111
1841	132
1871	175
1881	180
1891	183
1901	122
1911	120

• A National School opened here in 1879.
   
• In 1913 the children of this parish were attending school in nearby Utterby.
   
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.