Little Grimsby

• The 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:

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Edith.
• The church stands next to the Manor House (see below).
• The church dates from 1500 and was partially restored in 1855.
• The church seats about 60.
• There is a photograph of St. Edith's church on the Wendy PARKINSON Church Photos web site, taken by Maria Borrill.
• Here is a photo of St. Edith's Church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1593.
• The Lincolnshire FHS has published several Marriage indexes and a Burial index for the Louthesk Deanery to make your search easier.
• 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.

Little Grimsby is both a parish and a village in northern Lincolnshire, due north of Louth about 2.5 miles. Yarborough parish lies to the east and Fotherby parish to the west. This small parish only covers about 850 acres.

Little Grimsby village does not show on an Ordnance Survey Motoring Atlas, since it is almost abandoned. If you are planning a visit:

• See our touring page for visitor services.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• The parish had a station on the East Lincolnshire section of the Great Northern railway.

• Little Grimsby Hall is built of red brick, in the Gothic style.
• Little Grimsby Hall was formerly the seat of the NELTHORPE family.
• In 1857, the Hall was the residence of Frederick Charles Peter BEAUCLERK, a captain in the Royal Navy who died in 1865 in Dorset at age 57.
• In 1900, the Hall was the residence of William Haddon OWEN.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF327914 (Lat/Lon: 53.403136, -0.005922), Little Grimsby 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.

• This place was an ancient parish in Lincolnshire and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
• The parish was in the ancient Ludborough Wapentake in the East Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
• In recent times the Civil Parish has merged with another to create the modern Civil Parish of Brackenborough with Little Grimsby.
• 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 Poor Law Union.

Year	Inhabitants
1801	56
1831	52
1841	61
1871	44
1881	54
1891	58
1901	43
1911	46

• There was no school in the parish. Children attended school in Covenham parish.
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.