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Sutterby

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Archives & Libraries

The Community Library at Alford has a local history archive that will prove useful in your research.

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Census

  • The parish was in the Alford sub-district of the Spilsby Registration District.
     
  • Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
     
  • The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
     
Census
Year
Piece No.
1851H.O. 107 / 2107
1861R.G. 9 / 2377
1871R.G. 10 / 3395
1891R.G. 12 / 2605
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Church History

  • The Anglican parish church is dedicated to St. John the Baptist.
     
  • It is a tiny church and only seats about 40.
     
  • The Diocese of Lincoln declared the church redundant in August, 1972. It was gifted as a monument in March, 1981.
     
  • David HITCHBORNE has a photograph of Saint John's at its worst on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2006.
     
  • The church is a Grade II listed building with British Heritage.
     
  • Here is a photo of St. John's church, taken by Ron Cole (who retains the copyright):
     
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Church Records

  • The Anglican parish register dates from 1595.
     
  • The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Bolingbroke Deanery to make your search easier.
     
  • Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.
     
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Civil Registration

  • The parish was in the Alford sub-district of the Spilsby Registration District.
     
  • Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration beginning in July 1837.
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Description & Travel

This parish and tiny village lies 5 miles west of Alford. Aswardby parish is to the south and Harrington parish forms the western border.

If you are planning a visit:

You can see pictures of Sutterby which are provided by:

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Gazetteers

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History

On the downs to the east there are barrows.

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Maps

  • See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF386724 (Lat/Lon: 53.23056, 0.074941), Sutterby which are provided by:

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Names, Geographical

  • The "-by" ending of the name indicates that this was a Viking settlement.
     
  • The name of the village appears in the 1086 Domesday Book.
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Politics & Government

  • This place was an ancient parish in Lincoln county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
     
  • The parish was in the Wold division of the ancient Candleshoe Wapentake in the East Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
     
  • Kelly's 1900 Directory of Lincolnshire places this parish, perhaps erroneously, in the South Lindsey division of the county.
     
  • The Civil Parish was abolished in April, 1935, and the land amalgamated into the new Langston by Spilsby Civil Parish.
     
  • For today's district governance, see the East Lindsey District Council.
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Poor Houses, Poor Law

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Population

YearInhabitants
180128
183134
187135
188136
189136
191128
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Schools

  • The children of this parish attended school in Langton or Brinkhill.
     
  • See our Schools page for more information on researching school records.