Waithe

The Library at Louth will prove useful in your research.

David HITCHBORNE has a photograph of the Churchyard at St. Martin's on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2004.

• The parish was in the Tetney sub-district of the Louth 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 Martin.
   
• The church dates from early Norman times. It was entirely rebuilt in 1869.
   
• The church seats about 100 people.
   
• The church was declared redundant by the Diocese of Lincoln in July, 2002.
   
• The church is a Grade I listed structure with English Heritage.
   
• David HITCHBORNE has a photograph of St Martin's Church on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2004.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of the church interior of this beautiful little church on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2008.
   
• Here is a photo of St. Martin's Church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1698.
   
• We have started a parish register extract. Your additions to this are welcome.
   
• The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a 1641/2 Protestation Return for the Haverstoe Deanery to make your search easier.
   
• Some 1900 Lincolnshire Directories show the parish in the rural deanery of South Grantham.
   
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.

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

Waithe (or Waythe) is a small parish and village on the road between Louth and Grimsby. Tetney parish is to the north-east and Grainsby parish to the south. The parish is a long, narrow rectangle, siting like a pedestal under Holton le Clay parish, and it covers only about 750 acres.

The Tetney rivulet runs near the village. If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A16 trunk road south out of Grimsby for about 6 miles.
   
• See our touring page for visitor services.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TA284007 (Lat/Lon: 53.487354, -0.066292), Waithe 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.

• Adrian S. PYE has a photograph of an RAF Memorial to four aircrews on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2019.

For a photograph of the Waithe Roll of Honour and a list of the names on it, see the Roll of Honour site.

• The name is often listed as Waythe.

• This place was an ancient parish in county Lincoln and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish was in the ancient Bradley Haverstoe Wapentake in the East Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
   
• The parish is part of the "North Thoresby, Grainsby and Waithe Parish Council".
   
• For today's district governance, see the East Lindsey Govt. Council.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Louth Petty Session Court every other Wednesday.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, the parish became part of the Louth Poorlaw Union.

Year	Inhabitants
1801	41
1831	31
1841	49
1871	58
1881	60
1891	55
1901	61
1911	67

• The children of Waithe attended school in North Thoresby.
   
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.