Brauncewell

• The parish was in the Sleaford sub-district of the Sleaford Registration District.
• In 1891, the parish was reassigned to the Billinghay sub-district of the Sleaford Registration District.
• Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to All Saints.
• The church was rebuilt in the early 1800s.
• The chancel was rebuilt in 1855.
• The church seats about 80.
• The Diocese of Lincoln declared this church redundant in May, 1973. In October of 1978 it was gifted as a monument to the people.
• Here is a photo of the church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1760.
• The Lincolnshire FHS has a Loan Library service which has the parish registers on microfiche for Baptisms from 1626 to 1794 and Marriages from 1626 to 1812.
• The LFHS has published several marriage and burial indexes for the Lafford Deanery to make your search easier.
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.

• The parish was in the Sleaford sub-district of the Sleaford Registration District.
• In 1891, the parish was reassigned to the Billinghay sub-district of the Sleaford Registration District.
• Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which started in July, 1837.

This small village and large parish are north-west of Sleaford, in a rural, agricultural area. The parish covers about 3,500 acres, but was only 2,480 acres in 1842. The parish is often listed as "Brauncewell with Dunsby". Dunsby was formerly the parish of Dunsby St. Andrew, but had reduced in size to a mere hamlet.

If you are planning a visit:

• See our touring page for more sources.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• The national grid reference is TF 0152.
• You'll want an Ordnance Survey "Explorer 272" map, which has 2.5 inches to the mile scale.
• See our "Maps" page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF013520 (Lat/Lon: 53.055664, -0.490049), Brauncewell 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.

• The name often appears as "Branswell".

• This place was an ancient parish in Lincoln county and bedame a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
• The parish was in the ancient Flaxwell Wapentake in the North Kesteven division of the county, parts of Kesteven.
• The parish is given in Kelly's 1900 Directory of Lincolnshire as being in the South Kesteven division of the county.
• For today's district governance, see the North Kesteven District Council.

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

Year	Inhabitants
1801	30
1821	77
1841	123
1851	131
1871	139
1881	173
1891	148
1901	128
1911	145
1921	171

• The parish had a school by 1900, built to hold 50 children.
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.