Winceby

• The parish was in the Tetford 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.
• The church in 1842 was a small thatched building.
• In 1866 a new church was built to replace the small, thatched building. It allows 84 seatings.
• David HITCHBORNE has a photographs of The site of the former Church of St Margaret on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2007.

• The Anglican parish registers date from 1579.
• The LFHS has published several marriage and burial indexes for the Horncastle Deanery to make your search easier.
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.

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

Winceby is a small parish in the Wold hills, about 5 miles east by south of Horncastle, 5 miles northwest of Spilsby and about 12 miles due south of Louth. Mareham on the Hill parish lies to the west and Hagworthingham and Lusby parishes to the east. The parish covered only about 890 acres in 1842, all in one farm occupied at the time by Charles HILL. In 1872, the parish is recorded as only 842 acres, and by 1900 at 853 acres.

The village of Winceby has only about 15 buildings. If you are planning a visit:

• See our touring page for visitor services.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• Richard CROFT has a photograph of Slash Lane on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2009.
• David HITCHBORNE has a series of photographs of the Battle of Winceby re-enactors on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2003.
• Here is a photo of a building standing at the site of the battle, taken by Patricia McCRORY (who retains the copyright). A plaque stands in front of this building:

• In 1872, the principal landowner was Charles HILL, who had purchased the parish land from Charles MANWARING.
• In 1882, the principal landowner was John HILL, nephew of Charles HILL, above, who died in 1875.
• In 1900, the principal landowner was W. D. ROGERS.
• In 1913, the principal landowner was Edward PATCHETT.

• Winceby Hall is mentioned in 19th and early 20th century directories, but no details are provided. It is sometimes listed as just Winceby House.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF320683 (Lat/Lon: 53.195133, -0.025578), Winceby 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.

• The Battle of Winceby was fought just west of here on Wednesday, 11 October 1643. Cromwell's Parliamentary forces defeated the Royalists. The scene of the battle is called "Slash Lane" to the present day. Colonel Cromwell'is horse was killed under him at the first charge. But Cromwell's forces won the battle, taking eight hundred prisoners and capturing twenty-six colours.
• Chris has a photograph of the Battle of Winceby Memorial outside Winceby Hall on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2013.

There is one Commonwealth War Grave in St. Margaret's churchyard for World War I:

1. John Edward SEWELL, priv., 6th Btn. Lincs. Regt., age 19, died 29 Dec 1915. Son of John and Mary Ann SEWELL of Scrafield, LIN.

• White's 1872 Directory lists the following people in the parish: Charles HILL, Thomas HOYES and the Rev. Wm. Wordsworth TALFORD.
• White's 1882 Directory lists the following people in the parish: John HILL, Isaac WARD and the Rev. Elijah Edward Baylee SALISBURY.
• Kelly's 1900 Directory lists the following people in the parish: Edward CONINGTON junr., farmer, and Edward PATCHETT, farmer.
• Kelly's 1913 Directory lists the following people in the parish: Charles ABBOTT, farmer, and Edward PATCHETT, farmer.

• 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 Hill Wapentake (Hill Hundred) 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 in 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.

Year	Inhabitants
1801	44
1811	64
1821	78
1831	65
1841	70
1851	78
1871	68
1881	64
1891	61
1911	43

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