Place:East Kesteven Rural, Kesteven, England

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NameEast Kesteven Rural
TypeRural district
Coordinates53°N 0.35°W
Located inKesteven, England     (1931 - 1974)
Also located inLincolnshire, England    
See alsoSleaford Rural, Kesteven, Englandrural district from which most of East Kesteven RD was formed in 1931
Haceby, Lincolnshire, Englandparish which joined the rural district in 1931
North Kesteven District, Lincolnshire, Englanddistrict municipality covering the area since 1974
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East Kesteven Rural District was located in the Parts of Kesteven division of the county of Lincolnshire from 1931 to 1974.

It was created in 1931 under a County Review Order, and was formed from part of the Sleaford Rural District and the parish of Haceby from Grantham Rural District.

It survived until 1974 when it was abolished under the Local Government Act 1972, and merged with North Kesteven Rural District to form a larger District of North Kesteven.

The whole of Kesteven was redivided into a new set of four rural districts named by the points of the compass in 1931. At the same time a number of neighbouring parishes were merged with the names of the new civil parishes made by combining the names of the earlier parishes.

Parishes

ParishDescriptionDurationNotes
Anwick parish (ancient), civil parish 1931 - 1974 formerly in Sleaford Rural District
Asgarby and Howell civil parish 1931 - 1974 formerly in Sleaford Rural District
Ashby de la Launde and Bloxholme civil parish 1931 - 1974 formerly in Sleaford Rural District
Aswarby and Swarby civil parish 1931 - 1974 formerly in Sleaford Rural District
Aunsby and Dembleby civil parish 1931 - 1974 formerly in Sleaford Rural District
Billinghay parish (ancient), civil parish 1931 - 1974 formerly in Sleaford Rural District
Blankney parish (ancient), civil parish 1931 - 1974 formerly in Sleaford Rural District
Brauncewell parish (ancient), civil parish 1931 - 1974 formerly in Sleaford Rural District
Burton Pedwardine parish (ancient), civil parish 1931 - 1974 formerly in Sleaford Rural District
Cranwell and Byards Leap civil parish 1931 - 1974 formerly in Sleaford Rural District
Culverthorpe and Kelby civil parish 1931 - 1974 formerly in Sleaford Rural District
Digby parish (ancient), civil parish 1931 - 1974 formerly in Sleaford Rural District
Dogdyke township, civil parish 1931 - 1974 formerly in Sleaford Rural District
Dorrington parish (ancient), civil parish 1931 - 1974 formerly in Sleaford Rural District
Ewerby and Evedon civil parish 1931 - 1974 formerly in Sleaford Rural District
Great Hale parish (ancient), civil parish 1931 - 1974 formerly in Sleaford Rural District
Heckington parish (ancient), civil parish 1931 - 1974 formerly in Sleaford Rural District
Helpringham parish (ancient), civil parish 1931 - 1974 formerly in Sleaford Rural District
Kirkby la Thorpe parish (ancient), civil parish 1931 - 1974 formerly in Sleaford Rural District
Leasingham civil parish 1931 - 1974 formerly in Sleaford Rural District
Little Hale township, civil parish 1931 - 1974 formerly in Sleaford Rural District
Martin township, civil parish 1931 - 1974 formerly in Sleaford Rural District
Newton and Haceby civil parish 1931 - 1974 formerly in Sleaford Rural District and Grantham Rural District
North Kyme township, civil parish 1931 - 1974 formerly in Sleaford Rural District
North Rauceby parish (ancient), civil parish 1931 - 1974 formerly in Sleaford Rural District
Osbournby parish (ancient), civil parish 1931 - 1974 formerly in Sleaford Rural District
Rowston parish (ancient), civil parish 1931 - 1974 formerly in Sleaford Rural District
Roxholm hamlet, civil parish 1931 - 1974 formerly in Sleaford Rural District
Ruskington parish (ancient), civil parish 1931 - 1974 formerly an urban district
Scopwick parish (ancient), civil parish 1931 - 1974 formerly in Sleaford Rural District
Scredington parish (ancient), civil parish 1931 - 1974 formerly in Sleaford Rural District
Silk Willoughby parish (ancient), civil parish 1931 - 1974 formerly in Sleaford Rural District
South Kyme parish (ancient), civil parish 1931 - 1974 formerly in Sleaford Rural District
South Rauceby chapelry, parish (ancient), civil parish 1931 - 1974 formerly in Sleaford Rural District
Swaton parish (ancient), civil parish 1931 - 1974 formerly in Sleaford Rural District
Temple Bruer with Temple High Grange civil parish 1931 - 1974 formerly in Sleaford Rural District
Threekingham parish (ancient), civil parish 1931 - 1974 formerly in Sleaford Rural District
Timberland parish (ancient), civil parish 1931 - 1974 formerly in Sleaford Rural District
Walcott near Billinghay township/chapelry/civil parish 1931 - 1974 formerly in Sleaford Rural District
Walcot near Folkingham parish (ancient), civil parish 1931 - 1974 formerly in Sleaford Rural District
Wilsford parish (ancient), civil parish 1931 - 1974 formerly in Sleaford Rural District

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.