Nettleton

The Caistor Library is an excellent resource with a Local History section and a Family History section.

• The parish was in the Caistor sub-district of the Caistor 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 John the Baptist.
   
• Some portions of the church tower may date to Saxon times.
   
• The church was rebuilt in 1805 and again in 1874.
   
• The church seats 220.
   
• A photograph of St. John the Baptist church is at the Wendy PARKINSON English Church Photographs site.
   
• Steven RUFFLES has a photograph of the Church Tower at Geo-graph, taken in April, 2010. The tower was restored in 2011.
   
• Here is a photo of St. John's Church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1679.
   
• The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Westwold Deanery to make your search easier.
   
• The Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel prior to 1871 and the Primitive Methodists built a chapel here, built in 1858.
   
• For information and assistance in researching these chapels, see our non-conformist religions page.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of the Wesleyan Chapel on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2010.
   
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.

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

Nettleton is both a village and a parish on the Wold Hills. It sits only a mile south of Caistor and 9 miles south-east of Brigg. Rothwell parish sits to the east. The parish covers about 3,600 acres.

Nettleton Beck runs through the village and south along the Viking Way. If you are planning a visit:

• The village of Nettleton sits in a valley below Nettleton Hill in the Wold hills.
   
• Take a walk in the Nettleton Nature Preserve. Previously a landfill site, the Preserve is now a haven for wildlife.
   
• The village sits at the foot of Nettleton Hill. Visit our touring page for more sources.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• Ironstone was abundant in the parish. In the early 1900s it was worked by John LYSAGHT Ltd, of Scunthorpe.
   
• Stop by the Salutation Inn and chat with the locals.
   
• J. THOMAS has a photograph of the Salutation Inn on the Ciastor Road at Geo-graph, taken in April, 2014.
   
• Here are the proprietors listed in various directories:

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TA108002 (Lat/Lon: 53.486973, -0.332079), Nettleton 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 1922 a Memorial Cottage was built with two dedicatory stone tablets placed within stone niches on either side of the door and windows, set into the wall of the building.

Stored in a cupboard at St. John the Baptist Church is a Roll of Honour listing 34 names (including the 12 who were deceased).

The names on the two stone tablets on the War Memorial Building are (all deceased in WWI):

1. Andrews, P.
2. Andrews, T.
3. Baker, F. V.
4. Enderby, G. F.
5. Enderby, H.
6. Johnson, R J.
7. Leonard, C.
8. Norton, J.
9. Norton, R.
10. Scott, A.
11. Waite, T.
12. Witty, W. S.

Names from the Roll of Honour can be found on the Roll-of-Honour website.

• This place ws an ancient parish in Lincoln county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• For governance, the parish was in the ancient Yarborough Wapentake in the West Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
   
• You may contact the Nettleton Parish Council regarding civic or political matters, but the can NOT help you with family history work. At last check, 2023, the website had not been updated since 2022.
   
• Today's district governance is provided by the West Lindsey District Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Caistor petty session hearings held on the fourth Wednesday of each month and nearly every Saturday.
   
• The Common Lands were enclosed here in 1792.
   
• After the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, the parish became part of the Caistor Poor Law Union.
   
• A cottage for two old married couples was built in 1922 in memory of the men of the parish who perished in World War I.

Year	Inhabitants
1801	259
1831	385
1841	457
1871	545
1881	482
1891	466
1901	383
1911	410
1921	402

• A school for boys and girls was built here in 1835 to hold 120 children.
   
• The parish formed a School Board in January, 1880.
   
• The Nettleton Community School is on Moortown Road holds up to 80 children between 4 and 11 years.
   
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.