Low Toynton

• The parish was in the Tetford sub-district of the Horncastle Registration District.
• The North Lincolnshire Library has census copies for 1841 and 1881.
• 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 Peter.
• The church was rebuilt in 1811.
• It is a small church and only seats 60.
• The Diocese of Lincoln declared this church redundant in October, 1973. In 1977 it was sold into private use.
• The church is now an overgrown ruin, the graveyard is unkept and overgrown as well.
• David HITCHBORNE has a photograph of St. Peter's Church on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2004.
• Here is a photo of Saint Peter's church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1585.
• The Society of Genealogists has parish burials from 1813 - 1900.
• The LFHS has published several marriage and burial indexes for the Horncastle Deanery to make your search easier.
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.

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

Low Toynton is both a village and a parish in the Wold hills, one mile north-east of Horncastle. West Ashby and Fulletby parishes lie to the north and High Toynton parish to the south. The parish only covers about 1,000 acres.

Low Toynton village is a small place in the vale of the River Waring, now no more than a collection of cottages. If you are planning a visit:

• See our touring page for visitor services.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• In 1842, the principal landowner was W. H. L. ROLLESTON, lord of the manor.
• In 1882, the principal landowner was E. Launcelot ROLLESTON, lord of the manor.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF275703 (Lat/Lon: 53.214471, -0.092084), Low Toynton 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.
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• White's 1842 Directory lists the following surnames in the parish: BLOODWORTH, SHARP, SPRANGER and WALLER.
• White's 1872 Directory lists the following surnames in the parish: BLOODWORTH, CHAPMAN, HOLDERSHAW, STRAWSON, TURNER and WALLER.
• White's 1882 Directory lists the following surnames in the parish: BLOODWORTH, CHAPMAN, HOULDERSHAW, KEMP, PARISH, SIMONS, STRAWSON, TURNER and WALLER.
• Kelly's 1913 Directory lists the following surnames in the parish: MASON, PARISH, READ, SCHOLEY and TOMBLIN.

• This place was an ancient parish in Lincoln county and it became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
• The parish was in the ancient Horncastle Soke in the East Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
• Kelly's 1900 Directory of Lincolnshire places this parish, perhaps erroneously, in the South Lindsey division of the county.
• For today's district governance, see the East Lindsey District Council.

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

Year	Inhabitants
1801	49
1811	98
1821	95
1831	108
1841	62
1851	76
1871	69
1881	53
1891	55
1901	65
1911	75
1991	21

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