Tupholme

• The parish was in the Wragby 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 parish once housed a Premonstratensian monastery dedicated to The Virgin Mary. It was founded under Henry II by Alan and Gilbert de NEVILLE circa 1166 AD. Some ruins are still visible.
• Gary BROTHWELL has a photograph of Tupholme Abbey ruins at Geo-graph, taken in 2010.
• The people of this parish worshiped at either Bucknall or Bardney parish churches.

• The LFHS has published several marriage indexes for the Horncastle Deanery to make your search easier.
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.

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

Tupholme parish lies about midway between Horncastle and Lincoln, just a little south of Gautby and northwest of Bucknall parish. The parish is just 2 miles north of the River Witham and covers just under 1,800 acres.

The village of Tupholme does not appear on an Ordnance Survey motoring atlas. If you are planning a visit:

• Take the A158 out of either Horncastle or Lincoln, then take the B1202 trunk road south from Wragby. This will take you into the area of Tupholme parish.
• Visit our touring page for more sources.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• Ann Cole advises: "Tupholme wasn't a parish (for most of history) so it won't be listed as one in the Horncastle Deanery. It is extra parochial, was an abbey in the days before Henry VIII got at it. The people who lived there would have a choice of parishes to use - possibly Bardney, Gautby, Bucknall."
• White's 1842 Directory refers to Tupholme as "an extra-parochial township" which covers 1795 acres. The 1882 Directory refers to Tupholme as a "churchless parish." But Kelly's 1900 Directory tells us that it is now a parish.

• Tupholme Hall was a brick mansion, erected around 1720 by the VYNER family of Gautby.
• Tupholme Hall was occupied by Robert Charles de GREY VYNER, who was lord of the manor, in 1912.
• The Hall has since been demolished.

• The national grid reference is TF 1469.
• You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer #235 map, which has a scale of 2.5 inches to the mile.
• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF150692 (Lat/Lon: 53.20778, -0.279379), Tupholme 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.

• "Tup" is an ancient word for sheep and "holme" is Old Scandanvian for island or a high place in a marsh.

• Tupholme was an extra-parochial area before it became a parish.
• The parish was in the West division of the ancient Gartree Wapentake in the East Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
• The parish was also in the Soke of Horncastle.
• For today's district governance, see the East Lindsey District Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Wragby petty session hearings on the first Thursday of every month.
• All the poor children of this parish were entitled to an education at Bardney Free School.
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, the parish became part of the Horncastle Poor Law Union on 16th January 1837.

Year	Inhabitants
1801	71
1811	78
1821	71
1831	68
1841	74
1851	73
1871	93
1881	93
1891	94
1901	83
1911	72

• In 1842, the poor children of this parish attended school at Bardney Free School. Later, some students attended school in Bucknall parish as well.
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.