Snarford

• The parish was in the North-East sub-district of the Lincoln Registration District.
• The North Lincolnshire Library holds copies of the census returns for 1841 and 1881.
• 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 Lawrence.
• The church was declared redundant by the Diocese of Lincoln in July, 1995.
• A photograph of Saint Lawrence's church is at the Wendy PARKINSON English Church Photographs site.
• Here is a photo of the church, taken by Ron CoOLE (who retains the copyright):

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

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

Snarford is both a small village and a parish in the Wolds, 9 miles northwest of the city of Lincoln and 6 miles southwest of Market Rasen. Faldingworth parish is to the north and Snelland parish to the south. The are several small rivulets in the parish. The parish is small, covering only about 1,120 acres. In 1841 it consisted of only six farms.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A46 trunk road northwest out of Lincoln City toward Faldingworth.
• See our touring page for more sources.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF051824 (Lat/Lon: 53.327644, -0.423574), Snarford 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 place was an ancient parish in Lincoln county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
• The parish was in the ancient Lawress Wapentake in the West Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
• Today's district governance is provided by the West Lindsey District Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Lincoln (Bail and Close) petty session hearings on the 1st and 3rd Friday of every month.
   
• As a result of the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, the parish became part of the Lincoln Poor Law Union.

Year	Inhabitants
1801	39
1831	61
1851	82
1871	78
1881	102
1891	105
1901	98
1931	61
1971	58

• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.