Ravendale

The Grimsby Library is an excellent resource with both a Local History section and a Family History section.

• The parish was in the Grimsby sub-district of the Caistor Registration District.
   
• In 1890, the parish was allocated to the Grimsby sub-district of the new Grimsby Registration District.
   
• Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:

• A Praemonstratensian Canonry was founded here in 1202 by Alan Fitz-Henry. Only their chapel remains in West Ravendale.
   
• In ancient times, West Ravendale had a parish church. Some ruins of the building remainded in the 1800s.
   
• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Martin.
   
• The church was erected in 1857 in East Ravendale. It replaced a much older and smaller structure.
   
• St. Martin's Church is Grade II listed with English Heritage.
   
• The church seats about 100.
   
• A photograph of St. Martin's church in East Ravendale is at the Wendy PARKINSON English Church Photographs site.
   
• Kate NICOL has a photograph of St. Martin's church on Geo-graph, taken in October,2009.
   
• Here is a photo of St. Martin's Church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
   

• The Anglican parish registers date back to 1723.
   
• The parish register for 1723 - 1812 are on deposit at the Lincolnshire Archives office.
   
• The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a 1641/2 Protestation Return for the Haverstoe Deanery to make your search easier.
   
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.

• The parish was in the Grimsby sub-district of the Caistor Registration District.
   
• In 1890, the parish was allocated to the Grimsby sub-district of the new Grimsby Registration District.
   
• Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which began in July, 1837.

Ravendale is a small village and a parish about 9 miles east of Caistor, 7 miles south of Grimsby and 10 miles north-west of Louth. The parish covers about 1,600 acres and includes the hamlet of West Ravendale.

If you are planning a visit:

• For relaxation, try the Manor Golf Club in West Ravendale.
   
• See our touring page for visitor services.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF242996 (Lat/Lon: 53.478033, -0.1301), Ravendale 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.

There is a brass plaque in St Martin's Church inscribed:

"In loving memory of
William Twistleton HAXBY,
eldest son of Twistleton HAXBY
killed on active service
November 3rd 1915. Aged 25.
Nobly doing his duty."

The Regimental badge of the Lincolnshire Yeomanry is above the inscription. His father was Twistleton Henry HAXBY, his mother was Sarah Ann HAXBY (nee KEMP). Twistleton was born in East Ravendale in April 1890.

• The name appears in the 1086 Domesday Book as "Ravenedal". That is Old Scandinavian for "Valley of ravens".
   
• Many records have the name as "Randal".

• 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 Bradley Haverstoe Wapentake in the Central Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
   
• In Kelly's 1900 Directory of Lincolnshire, the parish is given as being in the North Lindsey division of the county.
   
• West Ravendale is a chapelry and a township in East Ravendale parish.
   
• For many centuries East Ravendale and West Ravendale were separate parishes.
   
• District governance is provided by the North-East Lincolnshire Council.

• Bastardy cases would be held in the Grimsby petty sessional hearings.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, this parish became part of the Caistor Poor Law Union.
   
• The Common Land was enclosed here in 1841.
   
• In an 1890 re-organisation, this parish was transferred to the new Grimsby Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1801	76
1831	104
1841	112
1871	129
1881	165
1891	180
1911	157

• A Public Elementary School (formerly a National School) was built here in 1856 to hold up to 70 children.
   
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.
   
• Here is a photograph of East Ravendale C. of E. School taken in 2002 and supplied by Paul FENWICK (who retains the copyright). Paul used to attend this school.