South Hykeham

• The parish was in the Southwest sub-district of the Lincoln Registration District.
• Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:

• The Anglican church is dedicated to Saint Michael and All Angels.
• Portions of the church were rebuilt in 1725.
• Large portions of the church were restored in 1869.
• The church seats 123.
• Here is a photo of St. Michael and All Angels Church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):

• The Anglican church registers exist from 1562.
• Wendy PARKINSON has agreed to do census (1841 - 1891) and parish register lookups (1813 - 1900) for any interested persons. See the information she has online at: South Hykeham Registers.
• The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Graffoe Deanery to make your search easier.
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.

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

South Hykeham is a parish three miles south-west of the city of Lincoln. It lies west of the the A15 trunk road and east of the A46 trunk road ("Foss Way"). The River Witham forms a portion of the eastern parish boundary with Waddington parish just across the river. Thorpe on the Hill is the neighboring parish on the west side. The parish encompasses about 1,200 acres and includes part of the township of Haddington.

If you are planning a visit:

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You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK936645 (Lat/Lon: 53.169395, -0.601254), South Hykeham 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.
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• The name Hykeham is possibly from the Old English Hice+ham, for "small bird enclosure", appearing in the 1086 Domesday Book as Hicham. During the 17th Century, South Hykeham was also known as Church Hykeham.
  ["A Dictionary of English Place-Names," A. D. Mills, Oxford University Press, 1991]

• This place was an ancient parish in Lincoln County and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
• The parish was in the lower division of the ancient Graffoe Wapentake in the North Kesteven division of the county, in the parts of Kesteven.
• It appears that this place was abolished as a Civil Parish in 1931.
• For today's district governance, see the North Kesteven District Council.

• Bastardy cases would be head in the Lincoln South petty session hearings.
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, the parish became part of the Lincoln Poor Law Union.

Year	Inhabitants
1801	87
1841	85
1861	118
1871	90
1881	103
1891	96
1901	94
1911	96
1921	91

• In 1870 a school was erected here and attendance was 20 students.
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools page.