Revesby

• The parish was in the Tattershall sub-district of the Horncastle Registration District.
• Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
• The North Lincolnshire Library holds copies of the census returns for 1841 and 1881.
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:

• The Anglican Church is dedicated to St. Lawrence (some source say "Sts. Lawrence and Mary").
• The old church was rebuilt by a member of the BANKS family.
• A new St. Lawrence Church was erected in 1891 on the site of the former building.
• The church seats 192.
• A photograph of St. Lawrence church is at the Wendy PARKINSON English Church Photographs site.
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of St. Lawrence's Church on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2010.
• Here is a photo of St. Lawrence Church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):

• A chapel of ease was built in Moor Houses, about 3.5 miles south of Revesby village, in 1875. It has 90 sittings.
• The church at Moor Houses is also dedicated to St. Lawrence.

• Parish register entries start in 1594.
• Burial register entries for St. Lawrence (1813-1900) are included in the National Burial Index (NBI).
• The LFHS has published several marriage and burial indexes for the Horncastle Deanery to make your search easier.
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.

• The parish was in the Tattershall sub-district of the Horncastle Registration District.
• Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which started in July, 1837.

Revesby (sometimes "Revesby Abbey") is both a village and a parish in the Wold hills, seven miles south-east of Horncastle and 12 miles north of Boston. Moorby parish lies to the north, Mareham le Fen parish to the west and Carrington parish to the south-east. The parish covered about 4,970 acres in 1815 (part of this was a fen allotment in Wildmore Fen). The parish includes the hamlets of Tumby Wood (not to be confused with Tumby or Tumby Woodside), Medlam, and Moor Houses. These last two are in the West Fen area, part of the drained land, near the Newham Drain, which leads to the River Witham. They are believed to be the former dairyfarms of the old abbey.

Revesby village is skirted on the north by the A155 trunk road as it passes between Conningsby and Spilsby. If you are planning a visit:

• Take the B1183 south out of Horncastle or north out of Boston. When it meets to A155, you are in the village.
• See our touring page for visitor services.

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

• Near the village is the site of an ancient encampment, though to be of pre-Danish origin. A British Chief is believed buried in the tumulus.
• In 1142, William De ROMARA, Earl of Lincoln and lord of the manor at Revesby, founded an Abbey here for Cistertian monks. In 1538 it was granted to Charles BRANDON, Duke of Suffolk, and it passed from his family to the HOWARDs, Dukes of Berkshire, and from them to the BANKS family. Abbot's Lodge is all that remains of the monastic buildings.
• Most of the southern part of the parish was bog-like Fen until drained between 1802 and 1813. Prior to that, this portion of the parish was sparsely populated. Population increased greatly for a few decades after the draining.
• The parish used to hold a Pleasure Fair on October 24th of each year.
• In 1909, a Parish Hall was erected.
• Jo TURNER also has a photograph of the Red Lion Inn on the A155 on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2011.
• These are the names associated with the Red Lion in various directories:

• In 1842, the chief landowners were Sir James Banks STANHOPE, lord of the manor, R. A. CHRISTOPHER and several smaller owners.
• In 1872, the chief landowners were Sir James Banks STANHOPE, lord of the manor, Sir J. H. HAWLEY, Samuel PARK and several smaller owners.
• In 1900, the chief landowners were Mrs. STANHOPE, lady of the manor, Sir Henry Michael HAWLEY, baronet, William VINCENT and several smaller owners.

• Revesby Hall was built around 1660 by Craven HOWARD, about a mile east of the village, near the site of the ancient abbey. It was later enlarged by the BANKS family. The new hall, Revesby Abbey, was built in 1849 to replace the older one.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF298614 (Lat/Lon: 53.13396, -0.061271), Revesby 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.
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• In the church is a marble and bronze tablet, erected in 1918, in memory of Captain Richard Philip STANHOPE who was killed in France in 1916.
• In the church are both a tablet to the memory of the men of the parish who fell in World War I and a tablet listing the names of all who served (a Roll of Honour).

There is one Commonwealth War Grave in Revesby parish churchyard for World War I:

1. Arthur Albert ROBERTS, priv., Machine Gun Corps. age 22, died 22 Dec. 1918. Son of Albert and Mary Ann ROBERTS of Revesby Bank.

• The name derives from the Old Scandinavian Refr+by, meaning "farmstead of a man named Refr". It appeared in the 1086 Domesday Book as Resuesbi.
  [A. D. Mills, "A Dictionary of English Place-Names," Oxford University Press, 1991].

• Sir Joseph BANKS, baronet, born in London, was the son of William BANKS of Revesby Abbey, who died in 1743. In 1763, Joseph made a voyage to the coasts of Newfoundland and Labrador as an explorer and scientist. In 1768, he accompanied Captain COOK on his voyage to the South Sea islands. In 1777, he was elected President of the Royal Society, and held that position until his death in 1820.
• White's 1842 Directory lists the following surnames in the parish: ALLETT, BENTON, BLAKEY, BONNER, BROCKLESBY, CHAPMAN, CLEMENT, COMPTON, CONEY, COVIL, CURTIS, DICKINSON, FOUNTAIN, FOWLER, GRAHAM, GRAVES, GREEN, HODGSON, HOLMES, HOULDEN, INGOLDBY, KIRTON, LAKE, MORLEY, NORTH, SCOTT, SERLS, SHERIFF, SKELTON, SOULBY, STANHOPE, STENNETT, TRAFFORD, VIETCH, WATKINS and WINTER.
• White's 1872 Directory lists the following surnames in the parish: ADDISON, BARKER, BELL, BETT, BLACKIE, BROCKLESBY, BROOKE, BURN, CANHAM, CHAPMAN, CHEATLE, CLARKSON, COMPTON, DONABY, EDWARDS, HOLMES, HOULDEN, JOHNSON, KING, LAKE, MORLEY, NORTH, ORGANER, OVERTON, PETT, ROBERTS, RUSSELL, SCOTT, SKELTON, SMITH, STANHOPE, STENNETT, TAYLOR, THISTLETHWAITE, TRAFFORD and WILSON.

• This place was an ancient parish in Lincolnshire and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
• The parish was in the West division of the ancient Bolingbroke Wapentake in the East Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
• The parish was also in the Bolingbroke Soke.
• In 1880, the parish boundaries were adjusted and detached parts went to Leake parish near Boston and to Carrington parish.
• For today's district governance, see the East Lindsey District Council.

• In 1672, Theophilus HART bequeathed 20 Shillings a year for the poor out of rent charges for land at Moor Houses.
• In 1727, Joseph BANKS established an Almshouse for five poor men and five poor women. The endowment gave the Almshouse £50 in 1842 toward food and fuel.
• An unknown donor left 20 Shillings a year for the poor out of rent charges for land at Thorpe.
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, the parish became part of the Horncastle Poor Law Union.
• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Horncastle petty sessional hearings.

Year	Inhabitants
1801	498
1811	565
1821	572
1831	646
1841	693
1851	668
1871	686
1881	611
1891	516
1901	448

• A school was built here in 1858 to hold 100 children.
• Children from Moor Houses attended school at Tumby Woodside.
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.