Somersby

• The parish was in the Tetford sub-district of the Horncastle Registration District.
• 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 Margaret.
• The church is an ancient sandstone building. We know that the church was built some time before 1612.
• The church was restored in 1863-5.
• The church only seats about 80 people.
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson, poet laureate, was baptised in this church.
• There is a photograph of St. Margaret's Church on the Wendy PARKINSON Church Photos web site.
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of St. Margaret's Church on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2014.
• Here is a photograph of St. Margaret's church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1573.
• The LFHS has published several marriage and burial indexes for the Bolingbroke Deanery to make your search easier.
• Directories of the 1900s place the parish in the North Hill rural deanery.
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.

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

6 miles north-west of Spilsby and 7 miles east-north-east of Horncastle, Somersby is both a village and a small parish in the Wold hills. Tetford parish and Salmonby parish lie to the north and Bag Enderby parish to the south. The parish covers about 600 acres (in 1881 and 1900).

The village is just a short walk southeast from Tetford. If you are planning a visit:

• Stop and see Somersby Quarry - This small outcrop of Spilsby Sandstone shows perfectly the softness of this stone and its khaki-green colour when exposed to weathering. Although this quarry is now disused, stone has been used to repair nearby Somersby Church.
• Visit our touring page for more sources.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• Alfred Lord TENNYSON was born in August, 1809, and raised here. Here is a photo of Tennyson House, Somersby.
• J. HANNAN-BRIGGS has a photograph of the Tennyson Memorial in St. Margaret's Church on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2012.

• The Manor House was occupied by John BAUMBER in 1872.
• David HITCHBORNE has a photograph of the Manor House on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2007.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF344726 (Lat/Lon: 53.233434, 0.012147), Somersby 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.

• When the troopship "SS Transylvania" was torpedoed in May, 1917, Lieut.Col. Richard Stanley WORSLEY was one of the casualties. His memorial is the organ in St. Margaret's Church.
• In 1915, Godfrey B. MESSINGBERD-MUNDY was made temporary Captain of the 3rd Battalion, Lincolnshire Regt. In 1930 he owned property here in Somerby.
• There are no Commonwealth War Graves in St. Margaret's churchyard.
• There appears to be a War Memorial cross standing outside the church door in this photograph of the St. Margaret's Church on Geo-graph. It is, however, a cross from around 1400.

• 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 Hill Wapentake (Hill Hundred) in the East Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
• Kelly's Directories of Lincolnshire, both the 1900 and 1913 issues, place the parish in the South Lindsey district.
• For today's district governance, see the East Lindsey District Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Horncastle petty session hearings every Saturday.
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, the parish became part of the Horncastle Poor Law Union.

Year	Inhabitants
1801	76
1811	73
1821	95
1831	69
1841	59
1851	64
1871	54
1881	43
1891	46
1911	47

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