Stainton le Vale

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

Alternatively, you can use the Market Rasen Library as a resource, also.

peter ood has a phoogaph of the burial ground at st. Andrew's churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2019.

• The parish was in the Market Rasen 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 Andrew.
   
• Some portions of the building date back to the early Norman period circa 1100.
   
• The interior of the church was restored in 1885. In 1913, the roof was restored.
   
• The church is a small building, seating only 90.
• A photograph of St. Andrew's church is at the Wendy PARKINSON English Church Photographs site.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of St. Andrew's Church on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2006.
• Here is a photo of Saint Andrew's Church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1765 for marriages and 1757 for baptisms and burials.
   
• The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Westwold Deanery to make your search easier.
   
• The Primitive Methodists built a small chapel here in 1894. 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 Market Rasen sub-district of the Caistor Registration District.
   
• Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which started in July, 1837.

Stainton-le-Vale (or "Stainton-le-Hole") is a small village and parish in the Wold Hills, about 6 miles north-east of Market Raisen and 6 miles south-east of Caistor. The parish covers just over 3,000 acres and includes the hamlet of Orford.

If you are planning a visit:

• Kate NICOL has a photograph of central Stainton (and the Meeting House) on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2009.
   
• See our touring page for visitor services.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Stainton le Vale to another place.

• Stainton Hall was occupied by Joseph DRAKES, a farmer, in 1912.
   
• Kate NICOL has a photograph of Stainton Hall on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2009.

• You might like the 1906 inch-to-the-mile map of North East Lincolnshire.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF174943 (Lat/Lon: 53.432856, -0.234833), Stainton le Vale 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 s. has a photogrgraph o the First WORLD War Memorial at St. Andree's chuchyard on Geo-graph, taken in Decemr 2011.
   
• Kate NICOL has a photograph of the War Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2009.

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.p.The names on he War Memorial are:

1. Charles ADDISON
2. Fred CARROTT
3. John William FOGG
4. George Henry HODSON
Charles JOHNSON
5. Issac KILLICK
6. Reuben NEAVE
7.  

MORed dtails on some ofthese men cann be found at lin.org website..

• This place was an ancient parish in Lincoln county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish was in the southern division of the ancient Walshcroft Wapentake in the West Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
   
• Kelly's 1913 Directory of Lincolnshire places the parish in the East Lindsey division of the county.
   
• Today's district governance is provided by the West Lindsey District Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard on the 1st Tuesday each month at the Market Rasen petty session hearings.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Caistor Poor Law Union.

Year	Inhabitants
1801	108
1831	118
1841	148
1871	215
1891	195
1901	211
1911	171

• A Public Elementary School was built here prior to 1911. It could hold up to 40 students.
   
• ths school reportedly closed in 1934.
   
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.