Belleau with Claythorpe, Aby and Greenfield, Lincolnshire Family History Guide

Updated onOctober 18, 2024

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Belleau with Claythorpe, Aby and Greenfield is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Lincolnshire, created in 1732 from Belleau with Claythorpe Ancient Parish and Aby with Greenfield Ancient Parish. Claythorpe is a chapelry of Belleau with Claythorpe, Aby and Greenfield.

Other places in the parish include: Greenfield, Aby with Greenfield, and Aby.

Alternative names: Belleau, Hellow

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

Belleau with Claythorpe, Aby and Greenfield

Parish registers: 1696
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1561

Aby with Greenfield

Parish registers: 1643
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1561

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Table of Contents

Adjacent Parishes

South Thoresby
Beesby in the Marsh
Burwell
Withern with Stain
Alford
Authorpe
Claythorpe
Strubby with Woodthorpe
Saleby with Thoresthorpe
Haugh
Swaby
Rigsby with Ailby

Parish History

Belleau

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BELLEAU, a village and a parish in Louth district, Lincoln.

The village stands near the Boston and Great Grimsby railway, in the vicinity of Claythorpe station, 4 miles NW by N of Alford.

The parish includes also the chapelry of Claythorpe; and its Post town is Alford. Acres, 1,344. Real property, £1,947. Pop., 214. Houses, 33. The property is divided among a few.

The name Belleau is derived from some fine springs of water arising from chalk rocks. Ruins exist of a monastery, comprising two gateways and part of a turret. The lands were given, in the time of Cromwell, to Sir Henry Vane.

The living is a rectory, united with Aby, in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £300. Patron, Lord Willoughby d’Eresby. The church is an ancient edifice, with a small tower; and contains a fine effigies of a crusader.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Aby

The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1840

Aby, a parish, united to Belleau in 1732. in the marsh division of Calceworth hund., parts of Lindsey, and union of Louth, Lincolnshire; 2¾ miles north-west from Alford.

Living, a discharged vicarage, with the rectory of Belleau, in the archd. and dio. of Lincoln; rated at £6 3s. 6d. Patron, in 1835, Lord Willoughby d’Eresby.

In 1801, including the hamlet of Greenfield, it contained a pop. of 122; in 1831, 204. Houses 42. Acres 1,560. A. P. £1,184. Poor rates, in 1837, £1742.

Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1840.