Laughton (Folkingham)

The Library at Bourne will prove useful in your research.

• The parish was in the Aslackby sub-district of the Bourne Registration District.
   
• Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:

• The Anglican parish church here was in ruins by the beginning of the 19th century. White's 1842 Directory refers to this place as a "small churchless parish".
   
• The remains of the churchyard may still be traced.
   
• The inhabitants of this parish attended church in Folkingham parish.

• There are no parish registers for Laughton. Check the registers of adjoining parishes, starting with Folkingham. Sometime prior to 1838 the vicarage was merged with the rectory at Folkingham.
   
• The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Aveland and Ness Deanery to make your search easier.
   
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.

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

This village and parish lies 8 miles north of Bourne, south of Sleaford on the A15 trunk road. Aslackby parish lies to the south, Folkingham to the north, and Sempringham to the east. The parish covers only 1,136 acres.

The centre of Laughton is 1.5 miles south of Folkingham. If you are planning a visit:

• The village is too small to appear on many modern maps.
   
• See our touring page for visitor services.

• Geograph
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• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Laughton (Folkingham) to another place.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF077317 (Lat/Lon: 52.872005, -0.401344), Laughton (Folkingham) 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 the 1086 Domesday Book the village name is rendered as Loctone, from the Old English loc+tun meaning "enclosure that can be locked".
  [A. D. Mills, "A Dictionary of English Place-Names," Oxford University Press, 1991]

• The parish was in the ancient Aveland Wapentake in the South Kesteven district in the parts of Kesteven.
   
• The parish and hamlet of Laughton was amalgamated into Aslackby parish some time in the 1900s.
   
• For today's district governance, contact the South Kesteven District Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Bourne petty session hearings.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act reforms, the parish became a member of the Bourne Poor Law Union.

Year	Inhabitants
1801	29
1811	43
1831	75
1841	73
1871	75
1891	78
1901	77
1911	70

• The author of this web page could find no record of a school in this parish.
   
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.