Great Sturton

• The parish was in the Wragby sub-district of the Horncastle 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 All Saints.
• The church chancel was restored in 1904.
• The church nave was restored in 1928.
• The church seats 90 people.
• There is a photograph of All Saints Church on the Wendy PARKINSON Church Photos web site.
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of All Saints Church on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2006.
• Here is a photo of All Saints Church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1656.
• The LFHS has published several marriage indexes for the Horncastle Deanery to make your search easier.
• The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here in 1883. For more on these chapels and their records, check our Non-Conformist Church Records page for additional resources.
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.

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

Great Sturton is both a parish and a "scattered" village 6 miles north-west of Horncastle and 16 miles east of Lincoln. The River Bain forms the eastern boundary. Sotby parish is to the north and Baumber parish to the south. The parish covers almost 1,600 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A158 trunk road north out of Horncastle and turn north onto the B1225 arterial at Baumber. The village should be about 2 miles further on your left.
• Visit our touring page for more sources.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• Sturton is supposed to have been a Roman station.
• The trace of a Roman Road lies at the north edge of the parish.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF215766 (Lat/Lon: 53.272476, -0.179485), Great Sturton 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.

• Great Sturton is listed in many archival records under its Latin name: "Sturton Magna".

• This place was an ancient parish in the county of Lincoln and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
• The parish was in the North division of the ancient Gartree Wapentake in the East Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
• The citizens of this parish have elected to forgo a formal Parish Council in favour of periodic Parish Meetings where they can discuss civic and political issues.
• For today's district governance, see the East Lindsey District Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Horncastle petty session hearings every Saturday.
• The Common Lands were enclosed here about 1776.
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, the parish became part of the Horncastle Poor Law Union.

Year	Inhabitants
1801	108
1811	130
1821	145
1831	138
1841	127
1851	138
1871	130
1881	145
1891	126
1901	109
1911	101
1921	101
1931	93

• The children of this parish attended schools in Hatton and Baumber.
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.