Washingborough

• The parish was in the South West sub-district of the Lincoln 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 John the Evangelist.
• A photograph of St. John's church is at the Wendy PARKINSON English Church Photographs site.
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of St. John the Evangelist's Church on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2006.
• Here is a photograph of St. John's church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):

• A photograph of the Anglican church at Heighington is also at the Wendy PARKINSON English Church Photographs site.
• Here is a photograph of the Chapel of Ease at Heighington, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1565.
• The Family History Library in Salt Lake City has, on microfilm, the marriages in Washingborough for the years 1564-1734, 1734-1748, and 1813-1880.
• The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Graffoe Deanery to make your search easier.
• The Free Methodists had a chapel built here in 1882. For information and assistance in researching these chapels, see our non-conformist religions page.
• J. THOMAS has a photograph of the Free Methodist Chapel on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2013.
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.

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

Washingborough is both a village and a parish which lies 132 miles north of London on the south bank of the River Witham just a few miles east-south-east of Lincoln in Lincolnshire, just north-west of Heighington. Heighington is a township in the parish. Branston parish is to the south. The parish covers about 2,600 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• Take the B1190 trunk road, between Horncastle and Lincoln. This travels through the north edge of the village.
• See our touring page for more sources.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF018706 (Lat/Lon: 53.222705, -0.476691), Washingborough 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.

• Richard CROFT has a photograph of the Remembrance Cross/A> outside the church on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2013.

For a photograph of the Washingborough War Memorial and the names on the Rolls of Honour plaques, see the Roll of Honour site.

• The name "Heighington" is pronounced by locals as "Hainton".

• This place was an ancient parish in Lincolnshire and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
• The parish was in the ancient Langoe Wapentake in the North Kesteven division of the county, in the parts of Kesteven.
• For today's district governance, see the North Kesteven District Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Lincoln South petty session hearings.
• In 1619, Thomas GARRATT left an investment as a charity for the poor. In 1900, it generated about £120 to be distributed amongst them.
• The Common Lands were enclosed here in 1834.
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, the parish became part of the Lincoln Poor Law Union.

Note: Some population figures may be for the township, others for the parish.

Year	Inhabitants
1801	645
1821	874
1841	1,099
1851	1,180
1871	1,154
1891	611
1911	674

• A Free Grammar School was built in Heighington.
• A School Board of 5 members was formed in 1876 to cover both Heighington and Washingborough.
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.