Burwell, Lincolnshire Family History Guide

Burwell is an Ancient Parish in the county of Lincolnshire. Walmsgate is a chapelry of Burwell.

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Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1586
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1561

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist

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Adjacent Parishes

Walmsgate
Haugham
Authorpe
Belleau with Claythorpe, Aby and Greenfield
Ruckland with Farforth and Maidenwell
Muckton
Swaby

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BURWELL, a parish in Louth district, Lincoln; 2¾ miles W by S of Authorpe r. station, and 5¼ SSE of Louth. It has a post-office under Louth; and fairs are held in it on 14 May and Old Michaelmas day.

Acres, 2,190. Real property, £2,471. Pop., 159. Houses, 28. Burwell Park is the seat of H. Lister, Esq.; and was the birthplace of Sarah Jennings, the famous Duchess of Marlborough.

A Benedictine priory was founded in the parish, by John de Hay, ancestor of the Umfravilles; made a cell to St. Mary’s Abbey, Bordeaux; and passed eventually to the Duke of Suffolk.

The living is a vicarage, united with the p. curacy of Walmsgate, in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £54. Patron, H. Lister, Esq. The church has a Norman chancel arch.

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