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Boultham is now a suburb of the Lincolnshire city and county town of Lincoln, England. The ecclesiastical parish of Boultham covers most of Lincoln west of the River Witham near Lincoln High Street. The parish includes the areas of Hartsholme and Swanpool. Tritton Road (B1003) runs through the centre of Boultham. From 1894 until 1920 Boultham was a civil parish in the Branston Rural District. It was absorbed into Lincoln in 1920, and since 1974 it has been part of the non-metropolitan district of City of Lincoln. A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Boultham from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
[edit] Church HistoryThe Anglican parish church was dedicated to Saint Helen. It was originally built in the 13th century and rebuilt in 1864. It seats about 110. The Anglican parish register dates from 1716. The churchyard was not added until 1868. A Mission Church was built of iron at New Boultham in 1912. It seats about 150 and was dedicated to Saint Matthew. The rapid growth of Boultham after the Great War meant that St. Helen's church became too small for the congregation and the new Church of Holy Cross opened in December 1940. (Source: GENUKI.) [edit] Research TipsLincolnshire 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.
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