Walmsgate

The Community Library at Alford has a local history archive that will prove useful in your research.

• The parish was in the Withern sub-district of the Louth Registration District.
   
• We have a handful of 1901 census surnames in a text file. Your additions are welcome.
   
• Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known by the page author:

Census Year	Piece No.
1871	R.G. 10 / 3398
1901	R.G. 13 / 3082

• A priest was assigned here in 1435.
   
• The Anglican parish church was destroyed many years before 1840. It was standing in the early 1600s.
   
• Residents attend the Anglican church in Burwell.
   

• The parish register is included in that of Burwell.
   
• The Lincolnshire FHS has published several Marriage indexes and a Burial index for the Louthesk Deanery to make your search easier.
   
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.
   

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

Walmsgate is both a village and a parish. It lies about 8 miles north-west from Alford and about 7 miles south of Louth. Burwell parish lies to the north. The parish covers just over 900 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A16 south out of Louth. The parish will be just beyond Burwell.
   
• Ian PATERSON has a photograph of the intersection of the A16 with Cowdyke Lane on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2008.
   
• Alex McGREGOR has a photograph of the Village Sign along the A16 on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2014. It is clear that the village could use your artistic skills and marketing knowledge to craft a new, more enticing sign.
   
• See our touring page for visitor services.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• The village is mentioned in 1377 when 20 people paid a poll tax.
   
• The Medieval village of Walmsgate lies about a mile south of the existing village.
   
• Chris ? has a photograph of the site of the Medieval Village of Walmsgate on geo-graph, taken in January, 2014.

• Walmsgate Hall was built after 1824 of stone on a rise near the village.
   
• The Hall was demolished in the 1950s.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF360776 (Lat/Lon: 53.277994, 0.03871), Walmsgate 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 Chapelry in Burwell parish in Lincoln county and became a modern Civil Parish shortly after those were established.
   
• The parish was in the ancient Hill Wapentake in the East Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
   
• For today's district governance, see the East Lindsey District Council.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Louth petty session hearings every other Wednesday.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became part of the Louth Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1801	50
1831	72
1841	84
1871	90
1881	73
1891	55
1901	64
1911	66

• The children of this parish attended school in Burwell.
   
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.