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“DRIBY, a parish in the Wold division of the wapentake of Candleshoe, parts of Lindsey, in the county of Lincoln, 5 miles S.W. of Alford, its post town and railway station on the Great Northern line, and 6 N. of Spilsby. A range of chalk hills skirts the eastern side of the parish. There are only a few farmhouses. The living is a rectory annexed to that of South Ormsby, in the diocese of Lincoln. The church, dedicated to St. Michael, is a small structure, with a turret and one bell. The trustees of the late C. B. Massingberd, Esq., are lords of the manor, and owners of the whole of the soil. Driby is a meet for the South Wolds hounds."
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from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
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The Community Library at Alford has a local history archive that will prove useful in your research.
| St Michael, Driby, Church of England |
- 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
YearPiece No. 1841 H.O. 107 / 632 1851 H.O. 107 / 2110 1861 R.G. 9 / 2377 1871 R.G. 10 / 3395 1891 R.G. 12 / 2605
| St Michael, Driby, Church of England |
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Michael.
- The original church here is thought to date to pre-1583.
- The church was rebuilt in stone in 1849-50.
- The 1949 series "The King's England" by Arthur MEES advises that Driby had "a little stone church completely rebuilt last century".
- The church was declared redundant by the Diocese of Lincoln in October, 1974. It was converted for residential use in February, 1978.
- The church seats only 80.
- John DAVIDSON has a photograph of St Michael's Church on the Geo-graph site, taken in June, 2006.
- David HITCHBORNE has a photograph of St. Michael's Church on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2006.
- The parish register dates from 1622.
- The parish register for burials covers only 1815-1941.
- Please help by adding to our Parish Register Extract text file for other researchers.
- The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Bolingbroke Deanery to make your search easier.
- After 1880, the church boundaries were re-organized and this church became part of the rural Hill No. 1 Deanery. All family history records will be in the indexes for Bolingbroke Deanery.
- 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 village and parish are 4 miles west of Alford and 6 miles north of Spilsby. The parish covers just under 1,400 acres.
Driby village has always been a small place. If you are planning a visit:
- By automobile, take the A16 trunk road south from Louth past Swaby. The village will be on the right, about 1 mile before the A1028 intersection.
- By bus or coach, check the Carlberry Co. bus schedule.
- For information on visiting, see the Lincolnshire Touring and Holidays page on this site.
- We have a couple of Directory quotes for Driby.
The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
"DRIBY, a parish in the Wold division of the wapentake of Candleshoe, parts of Lindsey, in the county of Lincoln, 5 miles S.W. of Alford, its post town and railway station on the Great Northern line, and 6 N. of Spilsby. A range of chalk hills skirts the eastern side of the parish. There are only a few farmhouses. The living is a rectory annexed to that of South Ormsby, in the diocese of Lincoln. The church, dedicated to St. Michael, is a small structure, with a turret and one bell. The trustees of the late C. B. Massingberd, Esq., are lords of the manor, and owners of the whole of the soil. Driby is a meet for the South Wolds hounds."
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Driby to another place.
- Driby Manor was, for over two centuries, the estate of the knightly family of DRIBY.
- The Manor later passed to the PRESCOT family.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF388745 (Lat/Lon: 53.249039, 0.078707), Driby 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 of Lincolnshire and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
- The parish was in the ancient Candleshoe Wapentake in the East Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
- For today's district governance, see the East Lindsey District Council.
- Bastardy cases would be heard in the Spilsby petty session hearings every other week.
- As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, the parish became part of the Spilsby Poor Law Union.
- The children of this parish attended school in South Ormsby.
- See our Schools page for more information on researching school records.