Brackenborough

The Library at Louth will prove useful in your research.

• The parish was in the Louth sub-district of the Louth Registration District.
   
• Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:

Census Year	Piece No.
1841	H.O. 107 / 629
1851	H.O. 107 / 2111
1861	R.G. 9 / 2383
1871	R.G. 10 / 3404
1891	R.G. 12 / 2608
1901	R.G. 13 / 3084

• The church here was gone by 1840.
   
• The inhabitants of this parish used the church at Fotherby.

• The Lincolnshire FHS has published several Marriage indexes and a Burial index for the Louthesk Deanery to make your search easier.
   
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.

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

This parish is just 2 miles north of Louth parish and city and just south of Little Grimsby parish in the Lincolnshire Wolds. The parish only covers about 890 acres.

The medieval village is deserted. If you are planning a visit:

• If you'll be staying overnight, try the Brackenborough Arms Hotel, Cordeaux Corner, Brackenborough, Louth, LN11 0SZ. Phone: 01507 609169, Fax: 01507 609413.
   
• Visit our touring page for more sources.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• This place was a Roman settlement.
   
• Brackenborough is listed in the 1086 Domesday Book as having 15 households.
   
• The medieval village of Brackenborough was northwest of Brackenborough Hall. Chris ? has a photograph of the Medieval Village site on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2015.

• Brackenborough Hall was built in the 17th century.
   
• Brackenborough Hall, also called Brackenboro House, can be toured. Pre-booking is required. Sunday only: 1.30pm and 3.30pm. Guided tours around the Grade II listed manor house, the moated grounds and gardens and the deserted medieval village. Free parking. Contact: Mrs. Eleanor Bennett on (01507) 603509.
   
• Mrs. Eleanor BENNETT has published a book entitled: "Brackenborough - the Story of a Manor," published by Louth Naturalists, Antiquarian and Literary Society in 1995.
   
• Peter CHURCH has a photograph of the western elevation of Brackenborough Hall on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2008.
   
• John BEAL has a photograph of part of Brackenborough Hall farm on Geo-graph, taken in 2007.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF333905 (Lat/Lon: 53.394511, 0.003194), Brackenborough 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.

• In 1911 and 1912, Lieut.-Col. Edward Kyme CORDEAUX of the Lincolnshire Regiment resided in this parish. He was baptised in Great Coates, LIN, in January, 1867. He died in July, 1946.

• This place was an ancient parish in Lincolnshire and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish was in the ancient Ludborough Wapentake in the East Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
   
• In recent times the Civil Parish has merged with another to create the modern Civil Parish of Brackenborough with Little Grimsby.
   
• There is no contact information for the Parish Council.
   
• For today's district governance, see the East Lindsey District Council.

• After the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act reforms, the parish became part of the Louth Poorlaw Union.
   
• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Louth petty session hearings.

Year	Population
1801	36
1811	46
1831	44
1841	63
1871	72
1881	67
1891	66
1901	72
1911	77
1971	47
1991	88

• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.