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“DOWSBY, a parish in the wapentake of Aveland, parts of Kesteven, in the county of Lincoln, 4½ miles S.E. of Falkingham, its post town, and 6 N.E. of Bourne station on the Great Northern railway. It contains the hamlet of Graby, and is bounded on the E. by the South Forty-foot drain, which is navigable to Boston. The soil is very fertile. A large part of the parish has been reclaimed from the fens, and planted. Eight tumuli, near the northern end of the parish, mark the battle-field of the Saxons and Danes, who met here in 869. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Lincoln, value £424, in the patronage of the Rev. K. Foster. The church, dedicated to St. Andrew, is an ancient massive structure, with embattled tower containing three bells. The charities are shared with Scothern. There is an endowed free school for both sexes. Lord Aveland is lord of the manor."
"EAST GRABY, a hamlet in the parish of Dowsby, wapentake of Aveland, parts of Kesteven, county Lincoln, 1 mile E. of the above.
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from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
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The Library at Bourne will prove useful in your research.
John BLAKESTON has a photograph of St. Andrew's Church and Churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2011.
| St Andrew, Dowsby, Church of England |
- Dowsby parish was in the Aslackby sub-district of the Bourne 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 / 617 |
| 1851 | H.O. 107 / 2095 |
| 1861 | R.G. 9 / 2316 |
| 1871 | R.G. 10 / 3312 |
| 1891 | R.G. 12 / 2556 |
| St Andrew, Dowsby, Church of England |
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Andrew.
- Some portions of the building appear to be from the early Norman period, around 1400.
- The church was thoroughly restored and partially rebuilt in 1864.
- The church seats only about 140 people.
- Rex NEEDLE has a nice written profile of St. Andrew's Church.
- There is a photograph of St. Andrew's Church on the Wendy PARKINSON web site under her "Still more Lincolnshire churches".
- John BLAKESTON has a photograph of St. Andrew's Church on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2011.
- David HITCHBORNE has a good photograph of St. Andrew's Church Tower on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2013.
- Here are two photographs of St. Andrew's Church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
- The Anglican church parish registers exist from 1670.
- Dowsby was in the Aveland and Ness Deanery. You may wish to purchase some of the Deanery marriage indexes.
- Wikipedia tells us that the church is now in the Lafford Deanery.
- Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.
- The parish was in the Aslackby sub-district of the Bourne Registration District.
- Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which started in July, 1837.
Dowsby is both a town and a parish six miles north of Bourne. Rippingale parish lies to the south. The South Forty Foot Drain is the eastern border. East Graby is a hamlet in this parish, near the Aslackby parish border. The parish covers about 1,820 acres.
If you are planning a visit:
- By automobile, the A15 trunk road, formerly known as the "Great Road from London to Lincoln," passes down the west side of the parish.
- There is only once-a-week bus service at last report (2011) on Kimes Busses to Bourne. See our transport page for more information.
- The nearest pub is in Aslackby.
- Marathon has a photograph of the B1397 Road headed East on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2011. Tha caption is enlightning.
- See our touring page for more sources.
The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
"EAST GRABY, a hamlet in the parish of Dowsby, wapentake of Aveland, parts of Kesteven, county Lincoln, 1 mile E. of the above.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Dowsby to another place.
- The Hoe Hills are a group of round barrows dating back to the Bronze Age. They lie just north of the village and east of Mill Lane.
- Roman and Medieval finds have been made in the parish.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF113296 (Lat/Lon: 52.852236, -0.348473), Dowsby 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 clock on the church tower was added as a war memorial for World War I.
- Thre is a stone tablet in the parish church recording the names of the men who fell in World War I.
- There's a single World War II grave in the churchyard shown at Traces of War.
The Commonwealth War Grave in St. Andrew's churchyard is for:
- Alexander Arthur JOLLY, srgt., RAF Vol. Rsv., age 22, 12 Aug 1944. Son of Alexander and Clarice JOLLY of Culverthorpe.
- The name Dowsby is from the Old Scandinavian Dusi+by, for "farmstead of Dusi", appearing in the 1086 Domesday Book as Dusebi.
[A. D. Mills, "A Dictionary of English Place-Names," Oxford University Press, 1991]
- This place was an ancient parish in county Lincoln and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
- The parish was in the ancient Aveland Wapentake in the South Kesteven district in the parts of Kesteven.
- For today's district governance, contact the South Kesteven District Council.
- Bastardy cases were heard in the Bourne petty session hearings on Mondays.
- After the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act reforms, the parish became part of the Bourne Poor Law Union.
- A Public Elementary School was built here in 1864 to hold up to 65 children.
- For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.