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The Community Library at Alford has a local history archive that will prove useful in your research.
- The parish was in the Withern sub-district of the Louth Registration District.
- We have a handful of 1901 census surnames in a text file. Your additions are welcome.
- Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known by the page author:
Census
YearPiece No. 1871 R.G. 10 / 3398 1901 R.G. 13 / 3082
- A priest was assigned here in 1435.
- The Anglican parish church was destroyed many years before 1840. It was standing in the early 1600s.
- Residents attend the Anglican church in Burwell.
- The parish register is included in that of Burwell.
- The Lincolnshire FHS has published several Marriage indexes and a Burial index for the Louthesk Deanery to make your search easier.
- Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.
- The parish was in the Withern sub-district of the Louth Registration District.
- Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which began in July, 1837.
Walmsgate is both a village and a parish. It lies about 8 miles north-west from Alford and about 7 miles south of Louth. Burwell parish lies to the north. The parish covers just over 900 acres.
If you are planning a visit:
- By automobile, take the A16 south out of Louth. The parish will be just beyond Burwell.
- Ian PATERSON has a photograph of the intersection of the A16 with Cowdyke Lane on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2008.
- Alex McGREGOR has a photograph of the Village Sign along the A16 on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2014. It is clear that the village could use your artistic skills and marketing knowledge to craft a new, more enticing sign.
- See our touring page for visitor services.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Walmsgate to another place.
- The village is mentioned in 1377 when 20 people paid a poll tax.
- The Medieval village of Walmsgate lies about a mile south of the existing village.
- Chris ? has a photograph of the site of the Medieval Village of Walmsgate on geo-graph, taken in January, 2014.
- Walmsgate Hall was built after 1824 of stone on a rise near the village.
- The Hall was demolished in the 1950s.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF360776 (Lat/Lon: 53.277994, 0.03871), Walmsgate 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 Chapelry in Burwell parish in Lincoln county and became a modern Civil Parish shortly after those were established.
- The parish was in the ancient Hill Wapentake in the East Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
- For today's district governance, see the East Lindsey District Council.
- Bastardy cases would be heard in the Louth petty session hearings every other Wednesday.
- After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became part of the Louth Poor Law Union.
- The children of this parish attended school in Burwell.
- For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.