Calceby

The Community Library at Alford has a local history archive that will prove useful in your research.

• The parish was in the Alford sub-district of the Spilsby 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 / 630
1851	H.O. 107 / 2110
1861	R.G. 9 / 2377
1871	R.G. 10 / 3395
1891	R.G. 12 / 2605

• The Anglican parish church was dedicated to Saint Andrew.
   
• By 1871, the parish church was in ruins. There hasn't been a service held here since 1692. Parishoners attended church at South Ormsby.
   
• Colin PARK has a photograph of the ruins of St. Andrew's Church on Geo-graph, taken on a sunny day in September, 2013.
   
• Here is a photo of the church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
   

• The parish register dates from 1561 and is included in the register of South Ormsby.
   
• The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Bolingbroke Deanery to make your search easier.
   
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.
   

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

This small village and parish are located 5 miles west of Alford. The parish covers only 630 acres.

The village is too small to appear on most small scale (large area) maps. If you plan to visit:

• By autombile, the parish is just 1 mile west of the A16 trunk road coming south out of Louth.
   
• See the Lincolnshire Touring and Holidays page on this site.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

There is a Dis-used Medieval Village (DMV) of Calceby jus ENE of the presnt settlement of Calceby.

Chris ? has a photograph of the DMV site on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2013.

• Chris ? has a photograph of Calceby Manor on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2013.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF390757 (Lat/Lon: 53.26013, 0.083084), Calceby 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.

• This place was an ancient parish in the county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish was in the Marsh division of the ancient Calceworth Wapentake in the East Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
   
• Kelly's 1913 Directory of Lincolnshire places the parish in the South Lindsey division of the county.
   
• For today's district governance, see the East Lindsey District Council.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Alford petty session hearings.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act reforms, the parish was amalgamated into the Spilsby Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1801	46
1831	54
1841	54
1871	54
1881	62
1891	41
1901	45
1911	48
1921	34
1931	34

• The children of this parish attended school in South Ormsby.
   
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.