Spridlington

• The parish was in the North-East sub-district of the Lincoln 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 Hilary.
• The present church was erected in 1875 on the site of an older church which had been built around 1821.
• The church seats 200.
• A photograph of Saint Hilary's church is at the Wendy PARKINSON English Church Photographs site.
• Here is a photo of St. Hilary's Church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):

• The parish register dates from 1574.
• The LFHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Lawres Deanery to make your search easier.
• The Lincolnshire FHS has a Loan Library service which has the parish registers on microfiche for Baptisms from 1560 to 1812 and Marriages from 1560 to 1814.
• The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here in 1838. For information and assistance in researching this chapel, see our non-conformist religions page.
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.

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

Spridlington is both a village and a parish 8 miles north of the city of Lincoln and 9 miles south-west of Market Rasen. Saxby parish lies to the north and Hackthorne parish to the south. Spridlington parish covers almost 2,300 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• Take the A15 trunk road north out of Lincoln. The village is about seven miles outside of Lincoln.
• See our touring page for more sources.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF007846 (Lat/Lon: 53.348451, -0.488291), Spridlington 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.

• Locals refer to the place as "Sprid". [Jean PRYDE]

• This place was an ancient parish in Lincoln county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
• The parish was in the East division of the ancient Aslacoe Wapentake in the West Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
• Today's district governance is provided by the West Lindsey District Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Lincoln (Bail and Close) petty session hearings on the 1st and 3rd Friday of every month.
• As a result of the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, the parish became part of the Lincoln Poor Law Union.
• The parish poor had a rent-charge of £5 (in 1842), left by Charles LOVELL.

Year	Inhabitants
1801	126
1811	179
1821	199
1831	250
1841	292
1851	313
1871	284
1881	291
1891	269
1901	252
1911	221
1921	188

• In 1842 the parish paid for 12 poor children to go to school.
• A school was built here in 1870 to hold up to 70 children.
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.