Friesthorpe

• The parish was in the North-East sub-district of the Lincoln 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 Peter.
• The church had a thatched roof until 1839, when that was blown away in a storm.
• The church was rebuilt in 1841, except for the ancient tower.
• The church is tiny, seating only 60.
• There is a photograph of St. Peter's Church on the Wendy PARKINSON Church Photos web site.
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of St. Peter's Church on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2005.
• Here are two photos of St. Peter's Church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1620.
• The LFHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Westwold Deanery to make your search easier.
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.

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

Friesthorpe is both a village and a small parish north-east of the city of Lincoln. Faldingworth parish lies to the north, Snarford parish to the west and Wickenby parish to the south-east.

If you are planning a visit:

• Take the A46 trunk road between Lincoln and Middle Rasen. The village is about 9 miles outside of Lincoln and only 3 miles from Middle Rasen, just off the road to the southeast.
• See our touring page for more sources.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• The Manor House is mentioned in Kelly's 1900 Directory of Lincolnshire, but only as the residence of George Ernest NETTLESHIP.
• The Manor House is mentioned in Kelly's 1913 Directory of Lincolnshire, but only as the residence of John MADDISON and son.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF072834 (Lat/Lon: 53.336655, -0.39153), Friesthorpe 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.

There are two marble plaques in the church. To see them and the names on them, see the Roll of Honour site.

• The name Friesthorpe has also appeared with the first two vowels reversed ("Freisthorpe") and as "Frysthorpe".

• This place was an ancient parish in Lincoln county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
• The parish was in the ancient Lawress Wapentake in the West Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
• Today's district governance is provided by the West Lindsey District Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard on the 1st Tuesday each month at the Market Rasen petty session hearings.
• As a result of the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, the parish became part of the Lincoln Poor Law Union.

Year	Inhabitants
1801	31
1831	46
1841	53
1851	62
1871	44
1891	59
1911	45

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