Thoresway

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 Mary.
   
• The church was built in the 12th century.
   
• The church used to have a western tower, but that was taken down prior to 1880 for safety reasons.
   
• The church seats 120.
   
• The church is a Grade II listed building with British Heritage.
   
• David WRIGHT has a photograph of St. Mary's Church on Geo-graph, taken on a sunny day in March, 2006.
   
• John FIRTH has a photograph of the church interior on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2011.
   
• Here is a photo of St. Mary's Church taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
   

• The Anglican parish register has baptisms and burials from 1726 and marriages from 1728.
   
• The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Westwold Deanery to make your search easier.
   
• The church was, for a while, part of the short-lived West Walshcroft rural Deanery.
   
• 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.

Thoresway is both a village and parish which sits in a valley of the Wolds, 155 miles north of London, about 5 miles south-east of Caistor and 13 miles north-west of Louth. Rothwell parish sits to the north and Walesby parish to the south-west. The parish covers about 2,800 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• Visit our touring page for more sources.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• The parish was for centuries a rabbit warren, but was brought into cultivation in the 1800s by the application of bonemeal and lime to the soil.

• The national grid reference is TF 1797.
   
• You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer map, which has a scale of 2.5 inches to the mile.
   
• You might like the 1906 inch-to-the-mile map of North East Lincolnshire.
   
• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF167966 (Lat/Lon: 53.453241, -0.244054), Thoresway 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 of Lincolnshire 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.
   
• In April, 1936, this parish gained 1,640 acres when Croxby Civil parish was abolished.
   
• Today's district governance is provided by the West Lindsey District Council.

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

Year	Inhabitants
1801	106
1831	158
1841	189
1871	220
1881	258
1891	259
1901	220
1911	190

• A Public Elementary School was built here for 50 children and an additional classroom was added in 1884. Another addition occured in 1903.
   
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.