Place:North Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire, England

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NameNorth Lincolnshire
TypeDistrict municipality, Unitary authority
Coordinates53.6°N 0.65°W
Located inLincolnshire, England     (1996 - )
See alsoLindsey, Englandpart of Lincolnshire in which it was located 1889-1974
Humberside, Englandcounty in which it was located 1974-1996
Glanford District, Humberside, Englanddistrict which part formed North Lincolnshire District in 1974
Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, EnglandScunthorpe, Humberside, England|district which part formed North Lincolnshire District in 1974
Boothferry District, Humberside, Englanddistrict which part formed North Lincolnshire District in 1974
Contained Places
District municipality
Scunthorpe ( 1996 - )
Parish
Alkborough ( 1996 - )
Amcotts ( 1996 - )
Appleby ( 1996 - )
Barnetby le Wold ( 1996 - )
Barrow upon Humber ( 1996 - )
Bonby ( 1996 - )
Bottesford ( 1996 - )
Broughton ( 1996 - )
Burringham ( 1996 - )
Burton upon Stather ( 1996 - )
Cadney ( 1996 - )
Crowle ( 1996 - )
Croxton ( 1996 - )
East Butterwick ( 1996 - )
East Halton ( 1996 - )
Eastoft ( 1996 - )
Elsham ( 1996 - )
Epworth ( 1996 - )
Flixborough ( 1996 - )
Garthorpe ( 1996 - )
Goxhill ( 1996 - )
Gunness ( 1996 - )
Haxey ( 1996 - )
Hibaldstow ( 1996 - )
Holme ( 1996 - )
Horkstow ( 1996 - )
Keadby with Althorpe ( 1958 - )
Kirmington ( 1996 - )
Kirton in Lindsey ( 1996 - )
Manton ( 1996 - )
Melton Ross ( 1996 - )
Messingham ( 1996 - )
North Killingholme ( 1996 - )
Owston Ferry ( 1996 - )
Redbourne ( 1996 - )
Roxby cum Risby ( 1996 - )
Saxby All Saints ( 1996 - )
Scawby ( 1996 - )
Scunthorpe ( 1996 - )
South Ferriby ( 1996 - )
South Killingholme ( 1996 - )
Thornton Curtis ( 1996 - )
Ulceby ( 1996 - )
West Butterwick ( 1996 - )
West Halton ( 1996 - )
Whitton ( 1996 - )
Winteringham ( 1996 - )
Winterton ( 1996 - )
Wootton ( 1996 - )
Worlaby ( 1996 - )
Wrawby ( 1996 - )
Wroot ( 1996 - )
Suburb
Bottesford ( 1996 - )
Urban district
Crowle ( 1996 - )
Roxby cum Risby ( 1996 - )
Scunthorpe ( 1996 - )
Winterton ( 1996 - )
the following text is based on an article in Wikipedia

North Lincolnshire is a unitary authority area in the region of "Yorkshire and the Humber" in England. For ceremonial purposes it is part of Lincolnshire. There are three significant towns: Scunthorpe (the administrative centre), Brigg and Barton-upon-Humber.

North Lincolnshire covers an area of 326.8 sq mi (846.3 km2) and in mid-2014 it had an estimated population of 169,250. It lies on the south side of the Humber estuary and consists mainly of agricultural land, including land on either side of the River Trent. It borders onto North East Lincolnshire on the east, Lincolnshire on the south, South Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire on the west and the East Riding of Yorkshire on the north. The council's administrative base is at the Civic Centre in Scunthorpe.

The unitary authority was created in 1996, on the abolition of short-lived county of Humberside (1974-1996). The district was formed by a merger of the boroughs of Glanford and Scunthorpe, and the southern part of the borough of Boothferry. Before the creation of Humberside in 1974, it was in the Part of Lindsey in Lincolnshire.

Research Tips

  • 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.):
  • The National Library of Scotland [1] also provides a large number of maps for all the counties and districts of England as well as those of Scotland. Their maps of England only cover modern placenames, but they do allow the user to view a parish in relation to its neighbours. These maps are very easy to read.
  • 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 of information 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.

The south of 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 (in the southeast), Parts of Kesteven (in the southwest) and Parts of Lindsey (in the north of the county). 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. Wikimedia has a map of the post-1974 districts of Lincolnshire.

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