Toynton St Peter

• We have a page of surname entries in our Toynton St, Peter 1901 surname extract file. Your additions are welcome.
• The parish was in the Spilsby 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:

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Peter.
• The church was restored in 1876-77.
• The church seats 220.
• There is a photograph of St. Peter's Church on the Wendy PARKINSON web site under "more Lincolnshire".
• Here is a photo of the church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1742.
• The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Bolingbroke Deanery to make your search easier.
• The Lincolnshire Archives hold: bapt. 1742-1926; Mar. 1742-1812; Bur. 1742-1837; BTs 1562-1837.
• There was a chapel for Wesleyan Methodists erected in 1844 in the parish. Out on the Fen, the Primitive Methodists also had a chapel and day school. For more on researching these chapel records, see our non-conformist religions page.
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.

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

Toynton St. Peter is a village and a parish south of Spilsby and east-south-east of Horncastle. Toynton All Saints parish lies to the west and Halton Holgate parish to the east. The parish covers about 1,600 acres.

The village lies just over a mile south of Spilsby. If you are considering a visit to the parish:

• By automobile, take the A16 trunk road south out of Spilsby or north out of Stickford.
• Check out our touring page.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Toynton St Peter to another place.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF406631 (Lat/Lon: 53.146719, 0.100164), Toynton St Peter 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.

For a photograph of the Toynton Saint Peter Rolls of Honour and the lists of names on them, see the Roll of Honour site.

• The parish was in the Eastern division of the ancient Bolingbroke Wapentake in the East Lindsey district and parts of Lindsey.
• The parish was also in the Bolingbroke Soke.
• The parish had a fen allotment, but that was transferred to the new parish at Wildmore.
• Kelly's 1900 Directory of Lincolnshire places the parish in the South Lindsey division of the county.
• You may contact the local Parish Council about civic or political issues, but they are NOT staffed to answer family history questions.
• For today's district governance, see the East Lindsey District Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Spilsby petty session hearings held every other Monday.
• Various charities earned £5 and 16 shillings per year (1900), derived from garden allotments, for the poor.
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, the parish became part of the Spilsby Poor Law Union.

Year	Inhabitants
1801	245
1831	372
1841	439
1871	342
1881	333
1891	262
1911	196

• The parish school was at Toynton All Saints parish.
• See our Schools page for more information on researching school records.