Orford, Lincolnshire Family History Guide

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Orford is an extra-parochial place.

Alternative names: Irford

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

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Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

  • Kirmond le Mire
  • Stainton le Vale
  • Thoresway
  • Swinhope
  • Binbrook St Mary and St Gabriel
  • Croxby
  • Thorganby

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

ORFORD, an extra-parochial tract in Louth district, Lincoln; 7½ miles NE of Market-Rasen.

Acres, about 1,000. Pop., 25. The tract consists of two farms; belongs to W. Angerstein, Esq.; and is sometimes regarded as a hamlet of Binbrook parish. A nunnery was founded in the time of Henry II.

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

Maps

Old maps of Britain and Europe from A Vision of Britain Through Time

Administration

  • County: Lincolnshire
  • Civil Registration District: Louth
  • Probate Court: Search the courts of the surrounding parishes
  • Diocese: Not Applicable
  • Rural Deanery: Not Applicable
  • Poor Law Union: Louth
  • Hundred: Walshcroft
  • Province: Canterbury