Waddingworth

• The parish was in the Wragby sub-district of the Horncastle 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 Margaret.
• In 1900, the church was closed and used only as a mortuary chapel.
• The Diocese of Lincoln declared this church redundant in April of 1975. In March of 1978 it saw new life as a store.
• There is a photograph of St. Margaret's Church on the Wendy PARKINSON Church Photos web site.
• David HITCHBORNE has a photograph of St Margaret's Church on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2004.
• Here is a photo of Saint Margaret's Church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):

• The parish register dates from 1640.
• The LFHS has published several marriage indexes for the Horncastle Deanery to make your search easier.
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.

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

This village and parish is 6 miles north-west of Horncastle. The parish only covers about 940 acres.

Janet Horton-Payne tells us that the village now consists of "St. Margaret's Church and a large house." If you are planning a visit:

• Check our touring page for more sources.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF185712 (Lat/Lon: 53.224638, -0.226456), Waddingworth 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 in Lincoln county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
• For governance, the parish was in the ancient Gartree Wapentake in the East Lindsey district and parts of Lindsey.
• For today's district governance, see the East Lindsey District Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard at 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.
• In 1848, Mrs. BAKER left the interest on £300 for the poor, distributed in coal.

Year	Inhabitants
1801	59
1811	49
1821	59
1831	63
1851	71
1841	64
1871	56
1881	66
1891	54
1911	59

• The children of this parish attended schools in the nearby parishes of Horsington, Minting and Bucknall.
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.