Place:Grimsby Rural, Lindsey, England

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NameGrimsby Rural
TypeRural district
Coordinates53.52°N 0.15°W
Located inLindsey, England     (1894 - 1974)
Also located inLincolnshire, England    
See alsoCleethorpes District, Humberside, Englanddistrict municipality covering the area 1974-1996
North East Lincolnshire District, Lincolnshire, Englandunitary authority covering the area since 1996
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Grimsby Rural District was a rural district in the administrative county of Lincolnshire, parts of Lindsey from 1894 to 1974.

The rural district covered the town of Immingham and the other parishes listed below. The rural district was separate from Grimsby county borough and Cleethorpes Municipal Borough, which it surrounded on three sides.

When the county of Humberside was formed in 1974, the Grimsby Rural District and Cleethorpes Municipal Borough were combined to form the new borough of Cleethorpes. The new organization did not meet with the pleasure of the local citizenry and Humberside was wound up in 1996. The area became part of the new unitary authority of North East Lincolnshire in the ceremonial county of Lincolnshire.

Parishes

ParishDescriptionDurationNotes
Ashby cum Fenby parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Aylesby parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Barnoldby le Beck parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Beelsby parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Bradley parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Brigsley parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
East Ravendale parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Great Coates parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974 transferred to Grimsby borough and Healing parish 1968
Habrough parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Hatcliffe parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Hawerby cum Beesby parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Healing parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Humberston parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Immingham parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Irby upon Humber parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Laceby parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Little Coates parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974 transferred to Grimsby borough and Great Coates parish 1928
New Waltham civil parish 1894 - 1974
Scartho parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974 transferred to Grimsby borough and Waltham parish 1928
Stallingborough parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Waltham parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Weelsby civil parish 1894 - 1968 transferred to Humberston and New Waltham parishes 1968
West Ravendale chapelry, civil parish 1894 - 1974
Wold Newton parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974

Research Tips

Lincolnshire is very low-lying and land had to be drained for agriculture to be successful. The larger drainage channels, many of which are parallel to each other, became boundaries between parishes. Many parishes are long and thin for this reason.

There is much fenland in Lincolnshire, particularly in the Boston and Horncastle areas. Fenlands tended to be extraparochial before the mid 1850s, and although many sections were identified with names and given the title "civil parish", little information has been found about them. Many appear to be abolished in 1906, but the parish which adopts them is not given in A Vision of Britain through Time. Note the WR category Lincolnshire Fenland Settlements which is an attempt to organize them into one list.

From 1889 until 1974 Lincolnshire was divided into three administrative counties: Parts of Holland, Parts of Kesteven and Parts of Lindsey. These formal names do not fit with modern grammatical usage, but that is what they were, nonetheless. In 1974 the northern section of Lindsey, along with the East Riding of Yorkshire, became the short-lived county of Humberside. In 1996 Humberside was abolished and the area previously in Lincolnshire was made into the two "unitary authorities" of North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire. The remainder of Lincolnshire was divided into "non-metropolitan districts" or "district municipalities" in 1974. Towns, villages and parishes are all listed under Lincolnshire, but the present-day districts are also given so that places in this large county can more easily be located and linked to their wider neighbourhoods. See the WR placepage Lincolnshire, England and the smaller divisions for further explanation.

  • Maps provided online by A Vision of Britain through Time show all the parishes and many villages and hamlets. (Small local reorganization of parishes took place in the 1930s led to differences between the latter two maps.):
  • FindMyPast now has a large collection of Lincolnshire baptisms, banns, marriages and burials now available to search by name, year, place and parent's names. This is a pay website. (blog dated 16 Sep 2016)
  • GENUKI's page on Lincolnshire's Archive Service gives addresses, phone numbers, webpages for all archive offices, museums and libraries in Lincolnshire which may store old records and also presents a list entitled "Hints for the new researcher" which may include details of which you are not aware. These suggestions are becoming more and more outdated, but there's no telling what may be expected in a small library.
  • GENUKI also has pages of information on individual parishes, particularly ecclesiastical parishes. The author may just come up with morsels not supplied in other internet-available sources.
  • Deceased Online now has records for 11 cemeteries and two crematoria in Lincolnshire. This includes Grimsby's Scartho Road cemetery, Scartho Road crematorium, and Cleethorpes cemetery, council records for the City of Lincoln and Gainsborough, and older church records from The National Archives for St Michael's in Stamford, and St Mark's in Lincoln, dating back to 1707. This is a pay website.
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