Aslackby, Lincolnshire Family History Guide
Aslackby is an Ancient Parish in the county of Lincolnshire.
Other places in the parish include: West Grayby, West Graby, Milnthorpe, Millthorpe, Grayby, Graby, and Avethorpe.
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1558
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1561
Nonconformists include: General Baptist
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Adjacent Parishes
- Kirkby Underwood
- Folkingham with Laughton
- Rippingale
- Dowsby
- Gosberton
- Irnham
- Pointon
- Surfleet
- Lenton
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
ASLACKBY, a parish and a subdistrict in the district of Bourn, Lincoln.
The parish lies 2 miles S of Folkingham, and 7 N by W of Bourn r. station; includes the hamlets of Graby and Millthorpe; and has a fen allotment. Post town, Folkingham. Acres, 3,934. Real property, £5,944. Pop., 534. Houses, 100.
A commandery of the Knights Templars was founded here, in the time of Richard I., by John le Mareschal; belonged afterwards to the Knights Hospitallers; and passed, at the dissolution, to Edward, Lord Clinton.
A farmhouse, called the Temple, now stands on the site of its church; and includes remains of a square embattled tower.
A castle also was founded here before 1062; and can still be traced in fosse and mounds.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £453. Patron, R. F. Barstow, Esq. The church is a handsome edifice, with an embattled tower.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
FamilySearch
Maps
Old maps of Britain and Europe from A Vision of Britain Through Time
Administration
- County: Lincolnshire
- Civil Registration District: Bourne
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Lincoln (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Lincoln
- Rural Deanery: Aveland
- Poor Law Union: Bourne
- Hundred: Aveland
- Province: Canterbury