West Rasen

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

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

J. THOMAS has a photograph of All Saint's church graveyard on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2013. Take care around those leaning gravestones.

• 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 built of sandstone and ironstone in the 11th century and dedicated to All Saints.
   
• The church is of Norman origin (some Saxon arches exist) and was partly rebuilt in 1829.
   
• The church was repaired and restored in 1870.
   
• The church seats 120.
   
• There is the base of an ancient cross in the churchyard. Richard CROFT has a photograph of the Churchyard Cross on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2013.
   
• A photograph of All Saints Church is at the Wendy PARKINSON English Church Photographs site.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of All Saints' Church on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2006.
   
• Here is a photo of All Saints Church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
   

• Thes parish register dates from 1683.
   
• The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Westwold Deanery to make your search easier.
   
• The church has, during eclessiastical boundary changes, been part of the West Walshcroft rural Deanery.
   
• The parish had a small Catholic school chapel, dedicated to Our Lady of the Rosary. It was served from Market Rasen. For information and assistance in researching these chapels, see our non-conformist religions page.
   
• 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.

The Village Stocks still stand by the West Rasen Village Hall & Heritage Centre as photographed and stored on Geo-graph, taken in CHRIS ? in August, 2013.

This village and parish are 3 miles west of Market Rasen parish. The parish covers about 3,180 acres.

The village is on the River Rase. If you are planning a visit:

• See what's on at the West Rasen Heritage Centre during your visit.
   
• Chris has a photograph of the Village Hall and Heritage Centre on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2013.
   
• J. THONAS Has a photograph of the River RAden in normal summer flow on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2013.
   
• Check out our touring page for resources.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• The parish has a 14th century horse-bridge of three arches across the Rase River.
   
• Threre is a 1950's photograph of West Rasen VIllage on E-BAY taken by ajohn FRITH.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of the packhorse bridge on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2006.
   
• Mandy CLEGG also has a photograph of the Old Pack Horse Bridge on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2018.
   
• An adjacent road bridge was built in 1856.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF064892 (Lat/Lon: 53.38893, -0.40159), West Rasen 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 ancient Walshcroft Wapentake in the West Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
   
• In Kelly's 1913 Directory of Lincolnshire, the parish was listed, perhaps erroneously, as being in the East Lindsey district.
   
• Today's district governance is provided by the West Lindsey District Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Grimsby petty session hearings.
   
• The Common Land was enclosed here in 1814.
   
• After the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act reforms, this parish became part of the Caistor Poor Law Union.

Year	Inhabitants
1801	162
1831	252
1841	286
1871	248
1891	218
1911	174

• The children of this parish attended schools in Newton and Osgodby.
   
• A National School existed here in 1871, but that building was replaced in 1875 with a new one. The new school appears to have closed around 1880.
   
• A Catholic school was built here in 1872 to accomodate 50 children.
   
• See our Schools page for more information on researching school records.