Toft (Next Newton)

The Caistor Library is an excellent resource with a Local History section and a Family History section.

Alternatively, you can use the Market Rasen Library as a resource, also.

• The parish was in the Market Rasen sub-district of the Caistor 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 Peter and Saint Paul.
   
• The church was built in the Norman period.
   
• The church was rebuilt in 1890 and reconsecrated in April, 1891.
   
• The church is a tiny church and seats only 80.
   
• The church at Toft was declared redundant in 1986. It was sold for residential use in 1989.
   
• A photograph of Saint Peter and St. Paul's Church is at the Wendy PARKINSON English Church Photographs site.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of Saints Peter and Paul's Church on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2006.
   
• Here is a photo of St. Peter and St. Paul's Church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1653.
   
• We have the very beginning of a Parish Register extract in a text file. Your additions and corrections would be appreciated.
   
• The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Westwold Deanery to make your search easier.
   
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.

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

Toft is a small village and parish about 4 miles west of Market Rasen. The River Rase runs along the northern border of the parish. The parish covers only about 1,300 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• See our touring page for more sources.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Toft (Next Newton) to another place.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF042883 (Lat/Lon: 53.381537, -0.434818), Toft (Next Newton) 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 southern division of the ancient Walshcroft Wapentake in the West Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
   
• April, 1936, this Civil Parish was abolished to create a combined Toft Newton Civil Parish.
   
• Today's district governance is provided by the West Lindsey District Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard on the 1st Tuesday each month at the Market Rasen petty session hearings.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Caistor Poor Law Union.

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