Gate Burton

The Gainsborough Library is an excellent resource with both a Local History section and a Family History section.

• The parish was in the Marton sub-district of the Gainsborough Registration District.
   
• Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
   
• Below are the census Piece Numbers, where known:

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Helen.
   
• The church was built in 1866 to replace a much older structure.
   
• The church seats 160.
   
• There is a photograph of Saint Helen's Church on the Wendy PARKINSON Church Photos web site.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of St. Helen's Church on Geo-graph, taken in 2005.
   
• Here is a photo of St. Helen's Church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1613.
   
• The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage and burial indexes for the Corringham Deanery to make your search easier.
   
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.

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

Gate Burton (or Burton Gate) is both a village and parish in the north of Lincolnshire. The parish lies south of Gainsborough with Marton parish just to the south and Willingham parish to the east. Nottinghamshire lies to the west, just across the River Trent. The parish covers about 1,100 acres.

The village is small and often is just called "Burton", but there are several of those in Lincolnshire. The village of Littleborough is across the Trent River. If you are planning a visit:

• On the A156 trunk road, south of Gainsborough, the road meets the A1500. Just north of that junction is the village of Gate Burton.
   
• J. THOMAS has a photograph of the Village Sign as you enter Gate Burton on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2013.
   
• See our touring page for visitor services.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• Gate Burton Hall is a mansion of white brick on the eastern bank of the River Trent.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of Gate Burton Hall on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2010.
   
• Ian S. has a photograph of Gate Burton Hall on Geo-graph, taken in 2012. It was a maternity hospital during World War II.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK838828 (Lat/Lon: 53.335896, -0.74295), Gate Burton 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.

In 1882, Lieut.-Colonel George M. HUTTON lived in Gate Burton Hall. He had been born in Gate Burton in Dec., 1834 and was buried here in early 1901.

Gate Burton is a "Thankful Village," a designation given to villages which lost no servicemen or women in World War I. The village sent 43 people off to war and they all returned safely.

• 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 Well Wapentake (Well Hundred) 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 in the Gainsborough petty session hearings every Tuesday.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, the parish became part of the Gainsborough Poor Law Union.

Year	Inhabitants
1801	63
1831	101
1871	109
1881	97
1891	118
1901	81
1911	96
1921	107
1931	88

• There was a Church of England School built here in 1861 by William HUTTON.
   
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.