Legbourne

The Library at Louth will prove useful in your research.

Legbourne had a Reading Room in 1919.

kevin Waterhouse has a photograph of All Saints Ghurh graveyard on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2018.

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

Census Year	Piece No.
1841	H.O. 107 / 639
1851	H.O. 107 / 2111
1861	R.G. 9 / 2382
1871	R.G. 10 / 3403
1891	R.G. 12 / 2608
1901	R.G. 13 / 3084
1911	R.G. 14 / 19900

• Gilbert de LEKEBURN (or TODWALLE) founded a Priory of Cistercian nuns here shortly before the reign of King John, circa 1150. All the monastic buildings have since disappeared and a more modern mansion built on the site.
   
• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to All Saints.
   
• The church was built about 1380 out of chalk.
   
• The church was thoroughly restored in 1868.
   
• The Church Clock was a gift of Thomas Cheney GARFIT in 1891.
   
• The church seats 240.
   
• The church is a Grade I listed building with British Heritage.
   
• J. HANNAN-BRIGGS has a photograph of All Saints interior on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2015.
   
• Here is a photo of All Saints Church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1711.
   
• The Bishop's Transcripts start in 1562.
   
• The Lincolnshire FHS has published several Marriage indexes and a Burial index for the Louthesk Deanery to make your search easier.
   
• There were chapels here prior to 1871 for Wesleyan Methodists and Reformed Methodists. The Primitive Methodists built their's in 1892.
   
• For information and assistance in researching these chapels, see our non-conformist religions page.
   
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.

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

Legbourne is a village and a parish which lies about 138 miles north of London and about 3 miles southeast of Louth. The parish is on the eastern side of the Wolds. This parish covers about 2,220 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• The Prime Meridian passes through the parish.
   
• There are 4 buses a day that visit Legbourne.
   
• Passenger rail service started in 1863, but ceased in 1970.
   
• John BEAL has a photograph of the village centre at Geo-graph, taken in August, 2007.
   
• j. THOMAS has a photograph of The Villag SIgn on Geo-graph, aken in June, 2013.,
   
• Visit our touring page for more sources.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• Traces of Ridge and furrow agriculture can bbe seen jut notheast of the village in the Go-graph photogrphraphtaken by Simon THOMPSON in January, 2022.
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• Around 1848, the Great Northern Railway established the first station here with a rail link with another town.
   
• Ian PATERSON has an interesting photograph of a Road Signal relating to the railway, taken in 2008.
   
• The village has a pump in a pinnacled stone structure which was built in front of the church in 1877 by Canon J. OVERTON. The pump was the principal supply of water until water mains came in 1953. The pump is a Grade II listed structure.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of the village pump at Ge-org, taken in 2009.
   
• Legbourne Wood is part of the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust. It is 86 acres of ancient woodland, primarily oak and ash trees with a mix of wildflowers. It is very popular with birdwatchers.
   
• In 1990, the parish combined with Little Cawthorpe to build a joint Community Centre that was wheel chair accesable and suited for multiple uses.
   
• J. THOMAS has a photograph of the Community Centre on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2015.

• An oak wood of 100 acres surrounded the old manor house, called South House. The manor house was formerly attached to Louth Park Abbey.
   
• In 1881, Kenwick Hall was owned by H. C. H. ALLENBY. It was rebuilt in 1889.
   
• In 1919, Major Reginald Henry FOWLER was lord of the manor and a principal landowner in the parish.  He was born in April 1864 in Louth and died in 1938.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF367844 (Lat/Lon: 53.338612, 0.05167), Legbourne 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.

J. THOMAS has a photograph of the War Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2013.

And the Roll of Honour website has a photograph and list of names for you.

These are names on the Churchyard memorial, an obelisk, complete with abbreviations as on the memorial, which is for World War 1:

ERECTED BY THE INHABITANTS OF LEGBOURNE IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THE MEN WHO GAVE ALL IN FRANCE FOR THE CAUSE OF LIBERTY IN THE EUROPEAN WAR AUG. 4, 1914 · JUNE 28, 1918.

• LT. THOS. NOEL CHEYNEY GARFIT 2ND. DBR LT. IN APRIL 30, 1915 AGED 22.
• PTE. HERBERT SYDNEY MAW 17TH WELSH FUS. JULY 9TH, 1916, AGED 25.
• PTE. WILLIAM CHAS. LEEK, 3RD LINCOLNS. NOV 23RD 1916, AGED 33.
• LT. ANDREW JNO. HAY HOBSON 7TH WEST YORKS. OCT 9TH, 1917 AGED 25.
• PTE. WALTER KIRKHAM 5TH LANCS, FUS. OCT 9TH, 1917, AGED 19.
• SGT. CHAS. ED. SMALLEY R. E. DEC. 19TH, 1917, AGED 28.
• PTE HENRY COUPLAND. 12TH SUSSEX APRIL 9TH 1918 AGED 22.
• L/CPL GEO WILLIAM BAKER. 10TH LINCOLNS JUNE 14TH, 1918 AGED 26.
• CPL JOHN TAYLOR W. YORKS. JULY 20TH 1918 AGED 22.

This is a list of men and women serving their country (apparently during World War II). "Names of those from this parish on Active Service for their King and Country":

Kelly's 1919 Directory of Lincolnshire lists a Captian George Thomas EAST as residing at the Poplars in this village.

• Locals pronounce the name as either "Leg Bun" or, a few, as "Leg Burn". I've also been told that some use "Leg Born".

• This place was an ancient parish in the county of Lincoln.
   
• The parish was in the Marsh division of the ancient Calceworth Wapentake in the East Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
   
• To discuss civil or political issues you may contact the Legbourne Parish Council. Alas, they are NOT staffed to assist with family history questions.
   
• For today's district governance, see the East Lindsey District Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Louth petty session hearings every other Wednesday.
   
• After the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act reforms, the parish became part of the Louth Poorlaw Union.

Year	Inhabitants
1801	280
1811	308
1831	449
1841	461
1871	543
1881	476
1891	464
1901	369
1911	357
1921	334
1931	416
1951	389
1961	347

• A Parochial School was built here in 1863. In 1871 it had an attendance of about 120 children. In 1912, average attendance dropped to 72.
   
• East Wood Primary School was built in 1993.
   
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.