Withcall

The Library at Louth will prove useful in your research.

• The parish was in the Louth 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 was built of stone in 1882-3, near the site of a former church.
   
• The turret of the church was struck by lightning in 1908.
   
• The church seats about 150.
   
• There is a photograph of St. Martin's church on the Wendy Parkinson Church Photos web site.
   
• Here is a photo of St. Martin's Church, taken by Ron Cole (who retains the copyright):
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1576.
   
• 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 Louth sub-district of the Louth Registration District.
   
• Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which began in July, 1837.

Withcall is both a village and a parish about 140 miles north of London and about 4.5 miles south-west of Louth. The parish covers about 2,600 acres.

The village is in the Lincolnshire Wolds. If you are planning a visit:

• Rail passenger service to the village ceased in November, 1951. There is a well-preserved rail tunnel near the old sation platform.
   
• Visit our touring page for more sources.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• Gordon HATTON has a photograph of the Deserted Medieval Village of Withcall on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2019.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF284840 (Lat/Lon: 53.337536, -0.073042), Withcall 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 the Memorial to the Great Northern Railway on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2020.

• This place was an ancient parish in county Lincoln and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish was in the Wold Division of the ancient Louth Eske 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.
   
• After the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act reforms, the parish became part of the Louth Poorlaw Union.

Year	Inhabitants
1801	66
1831	72
1841	90
1871	168
1881	237
1891	250
1901	209
1911	208

• A Public Elementary School was first built in 1876 by N. CLAYTON. It was enlarged in 1889 to hold up to 60 children.
   
• See our Schools page for more information on researching school records.