Leasingham

• The parish was in the Sleaford sub-district of the Sleaford Registration District.
• During the Census, the parish was combined with Roxholme township (just to the north).
• Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:

• The Anglican church of Saint John the Baptist in North Leasingham was pulled down in the 16th century. By 1841, no trace remained.
• The Anglican parish church of Saint Andrew appears to date from the 15th century or earlier. It was restored in 1863.
• St. Andrew seats 200.
• There is a photograph of St. John's Church on the Wendy PARKINSON Church Photos web site.
• Here is a photo of St. Andrew's Church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):

• The Anglican parish register, which includes Roxholme, dates from 1682.
• The Lincolnshire FHS has a Loan Library service which has the parish registers on microfiche for Baptisms from 1575 to 1813 and Marriages from 1576 to 1812.
• The Bishop's Transcripts start in 1562.
• Shelley CLACK provides a transcipt of the monuments in Leasingham churchyard in a Portable Document File to help with your search.
• The LFHS has published several marriage and burial indexes for the Lafford Deanery to make your search easier.
• There was a chapel here for the Wesleyan Reformed Methodists. The Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel in Roxholm. For information and assistance in researching this chapel, see our non-conformist religions page.
• There was a chapel in Roxholme for Congregationalists, built in 1871.
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.

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

Leasingham is a both a parish and a village just north-north-west of Sleaford. Ruskington parish lies to the north-east. The parish is just under 3,000 acres and includes the hamlet of Roxholm (Roxholme).

If you are planning a visit:

• By car, take the A15 trunk road north out of Sleaford for about two miles.
• You should check out the Village Hall as photographed by David HURN on Geo-graph in 2007. Stop in and check the schedule of current events.
• See our touring page for more sources.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• Roxholm Hall is a modern mansion of brick and stone. In 1891, it was the residence and property of John Albert COLE.
• In 1911, Roxholm Hall was the residence and property of Mrs. BOURN.
• There is an Old Hall mentioned in published directories, but no history was provided.

• See our "Maps" page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF056488 (Lat/Lon: 53.025677, -0.427265), Leasingham 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.

Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the War Memorial on Geo-graph, taken on a December day in 2009.

John EMERSON, who retains the copyright, provides these photographs of the war memorial at Leasingham:

John EMERSON also supplies this list of names off of the memorial:

To the glory of God and in memory of those men from this parish who laid down their lives in the Great War 1914-1918

• Locals pronounce the name as "Lezingham". [Simon MEEDS, 2001]

• Leasingham became a modern Civil Parish in late 1726.
• Leasingham civil and eclessiastical parishes are the consolidation of the two parishes of South Leasingham and North Leasingham (also called "Roxholme").
• The parish was in the ancient Flaxwell Wapentake in the North Kesteven division of the county, in the parts of Kesteven.
• You may contact the local Leasingham Parish Council regarding civic or political issues. Be aware that they will not assist with family history research.
• For today's district governance, see the North Kesteven District Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Sleaford petty session hearings every Monday.
• Leasingham Moor and the Common Lands were enclosed here in 1821.
• After the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act reforms, the parish became part of the Sleaford Poor Law Union.
• In 1876-84, the Bishop of Nottingham established alsmhouses here for poor widows.
• A Miss WELLS, a former resident of the parish, left the interest from £1,000, part of which was used to maintain a clothing club for widows and widowers.

Year	Inhabitants
1801	264
1811	329
1841	472
1851	428
1871	390
1881	368
1891	340
1901	314
1911	319
1921	299
1931	367

• There was a Public Elementary School built here in 1849. The school was enlarged circa 1905 to hold 120 children.
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.