Wilsthorpe

• Stamford Library
• High Street
• Stamford, Lincs, PE9 2BB
• Tele: 01780 763442

• The parish was in the Barnack sub-district of the Stamford Registration District.
• Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:

• An old church at Wilsthorpe was torn down in 1715.
• Wilsthorpe was a chapelry of Braceborough's Anglican Church for two centuries. The new chapel itself was built the same year the old church was torn down, in 1715.
• The chapel underwent extensive modification in 1862.
• The church seats 100.
• There is a photograph of Saint Faith's Church on the Wendy PARKINSON Church Photos web site.
• Tim HEATON has a photograph of St. Faith's Church on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2009.
• Here is a photo of St. Faith's Church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):

• Researchers should look for early church records in Braceborough parish registers.
• Wilsthorpe parish registers exist from 1754 for marriages and 1770 for baptisms.
• The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Aveland and Ness Deanery to make your search easier.
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.

• The parish was in the Barnack sub-district of the Stamford Registration District.
• Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration beginning in July 1837.

Wilsthorpe is both a village and a township 93 miles north of London and almost five miles northwest of Market Deeping, just west of the A15 trunk road. The parish is bounded on the southwest by Braceborough parish and on the north by Thurlby parish. The East Glen River runs through the southeast side of the parish. The parish covers about 800 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• For bus service from Stamford, see the Carlberry Bus Service for schedules and routes.
• See our touring page for visitor services.

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

• The parish was blessed with a fine mineral spring about a mile northeast of the village and a "bathing house" was built here in 1841 for people who wanted to "take the waters".
• There was a railway station here by 1872, on the Bourne and Essendine branch of the Great Northern line.

• In 1842, Dr. Francis WILLIS of Shillingthorpe Hall, lord of the manor, was the principal landowner.
• In 1872 and 1882, the principal landowners were Lord Kesteven and Dr. Francis WILLIS.
• In 1900 thru 1913, the principal landowner was Lord Kesteven, lord of the manor.

• A Manor House is referenced in White's 1882 Directory, but no description or history is provided.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF092136 (Lat/Lon: 52.709058, -0.385102), Wilsthorpe 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.

There is a plaque in Saint Faith's Church honoring just one man. See it at the Roll of Honour site.

• The name Wilsthorpe is probably from the Old English Wils+thorpe, or "Willow-tree farmstead".
  [A. D. Mills, "A Dictionary of English Place-Names," Oxford University Press, 1991].

• White's 1842 Directory lists the following names in the parish: George Wm. BANKS, Abel ULLETT and William ULLETT.
• White's 1882 Directory lists the following names in the parish: George BARBER, William CROSS, George HILL, Richard TALES, William TAYLOR and John WILCOX.
• Kelly's 1900 Directory lists the following names in the parish: William CROSS, Joseph ELLIS, George HILL, Martha Jane SANDALL, Richard TALES and William WASS.
• Kelly's 1913 Directory lists the following names in the parish: Arthur ELLERBY, Joseph ELLIS, Charles GRRENFIELD, Newman HAWKES, George PEASGOOD, Henry STARKEY and Edwin Robert WARTH.

• Wilsthorpe was a township in Greatford parish until after 1872. At that time, the entire township consisted of three farms.
• The parish was in the ancient Ness Wapentake in the South Kesteven district in the parts of Kesteven.
• For today's local governance, contact the South Kesteven District Council.

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

Year	Inhabitants
1801	80
1841	72
1871	52
1881	81
1891	84
1911	80

• Kelly's 1913 Directory tells us that the children of the parish attended school at Greatford.
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.