Wilksby

• The parish was in the Tattershall 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 Anglican parish church is dedicated to All Saints.
• The church is a relatively modern structure from about 1800.
• Records indicate that there was a church on this site at the time of King John.
• The church was renovated in 1895.
• The church seats 50 people.
• There is a photograph of All Saints church on the Wendy PARKINSON Church Photos web site.
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of All Saints' Church on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2006.
• Here is a photo of All Saints Church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):

• Here are two photos of All Saints Church, taken by Patricia McCRORY (who retains the copyright):

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1562.
• The LFHS has published several indexes for the Horncastle Deanery to make your search easier.
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.

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

Wilksby is both a village and parish about 5 miles south-southwest of Horncastle. Revesby parish lies to the south and east, and Wood Enderby is the other direction. This parish covers less than 700 acres.

Wilksby village does not appear on most small scale (large area) maps. If you are planning a visit:

• The "infamous" Wold Panther has been reported as seen in Wilksby area. This large black cat has been reported all over Lincolnshire, but primarily in the Wolds section.
• See our touring page for more sources.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF283635 (Lat/Lon: 53.153189, -0.082838), Wilksby 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 Horncastle Wapentake in the East Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
• The parish was also in the Horncastle Soke.
• Kelly's 1913 Directory of Lincolnshire places the parish, perhaps erroneously, in the South Lindsey district of the county.
• In April, 1936, this Civil Parish was abolished and the land (550 acres) amalgamated into the Wood Enderby Civil Parish.
• For today's district governance, see the East Lindsey District Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Horncastle petty session hearings.
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, the parish became part of the Horncastle Poor Law Union.

Year	Inhabitants
1801	54
1811	53
1821	58
1831	67
1841	89
1851	66
1881	35
1891	50
1911	47

• The children of this parish attended school in Moorby parish.
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.