Evedon

• The parish was in the Heckington sub-district of the Sleaford Registration District.
   
• In 1891, after a district re-organization, this parish became part of the Sleaford 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 Saint Mary.
   
• The church was reduced in size in 1809 by taking down the north aisle.
   
• The church was restored in 1898.
   
• The church seats about 70 people.
   
• The church is kept locked, except for services.
   
• Here is a photo of St. Mary's Church, taken by Ron Cole (who retains the copyright):

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1562.
   
• The Lincolnshire FHS has a Loan Library service which has the parish registers on microfiche for Baptisms from 1729 to 1812 and Marriages from 1729 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 Heckington sub-district of the Sleaford Registration District.
   
• In 1891, after a district re-organization, this parish became part of the Sleaford sub-district of the Sleaford Registration District.
   
• Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which started in July, 1837.
   

Evedon is both a village and a parish, just 2 miles east of Sleaford. Kirkby la Thorpe parish is just to the south. The parish is on a rise above the River Slea and covers just over 1,300 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A17 trunk road east out of Sleaford and turn north at Kirkby la Thorpe.
   
• See our touring page for more sources.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• See our "Maps" page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF098476 (Lat/Lon: 53.014009, -0.364695), Evedon 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 county Lincoln and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish was in the ancient Aswardhurn Wapentake in the North Kesteven division in the parts of Kesteven.
   
• The parish was moved to the Flaxwell Wapentake in the North Kesteven district around 1835.
   
• In April, 1931, this Civil Parish was abolished and amalgamated into the new Ewerby and Evedon Civil Parish.
   
• For today's district governance, see the North Kesteven District Council.
   

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

Year	Inhabitants
1801	86
1841	91
1871	71
1881	73
1891	90
1901	80
1911	78
1921	81

• In 1840, the parish was entitled to send children to Sleaford Grammar School. Two children were allowed to go to Ewerby parish school.
   
• Later, the children of this parish attended schools in Ewerby and Kirkby-la-Thorpe.
   
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.