Copping Syke

• The parish was in the Sibsey sub-district of the Boston Registration District.
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• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:

• The website author could find no record of a church here.

• The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Holland West Deanery to make your search easier.
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• The parish was in the Sibsey sub-district of the Boston Registration District.
• Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which began in July, 1837.

Copping Syke is a parish which is on the east bank of the River Witham, 8.5 miles north-west of Boston. The parish is just over 100 miles north of London. The area is flat fenland, only just 475 acres, drained by many small canals.

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You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF239512 (Lat/Lon: 53.043355, -0.153637), Copping Syke which are provided by:

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• In 1900, Copping Syke was a hamlet in Langrivlle.
• The parish was formed by Local Government Order No. 48,320 on 1 April 1906. It reconstituted all of the civil parishes of Great Beats, Little Beats and Seven Acres, as well as portions of Frampton and Wyberton parishes. Originally, it was assigned as part of the South Lindsey Division of the county, parts of Holland.
• The parish is in the ancient Kirton Wapentake in the East Lindsey division in the parts of Lindsey.
• In 1935, the parish was abolished to enlarge Wildmore parish.
• For today's governance, see the East Lindsey District Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Kirton and Skirbeck petty session hearings.
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Boston Poor Law Union.

Year	Inhabitants
1871	30
1881	23
1891	20
1901	7
1911	18
1931	28

• The parish was part of the Wildmore Fen United School District, formed in 1902.
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.