Calceby

Description and Travel

This small village and parish are located 5 miles west of Alford. The parish covers only 630 acres.

The village is too small to appear on most small scale (large area) maps. If you plan to visit:

• By automobile, the parish is just 1 mile west of the A16 trunk road coming south out of Louth.
  
  
• See the Lincolnshire Touring and Holidays page on this site.
  
  

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Census

• The parish was in the Alford sub-district of the Spilsby Registration District.
  
  
• Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
  
  
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church was dedicated to St. Andrew.
  
  
• By 1871, the parish church was in ruins. There hasn't been a service held here since 1692. Parishoners attended church at South Ormsby.
  
  
• Here is a photo of the church, taken by Ron Cole (who retains the copyright):
  
  

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Church Records

• The parish register dates from 1561 and is included in the register of South Ormsby.
  
  
• The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Bolingbroke Deanery to make your search easier.
  
  
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.
  
  

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Civil Registration

• The parish was in the Alford sub-district of the Spilsby Registration District.
  
  
• Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which began in July, 1837.
  
  

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Maps

• The national grid reference is TF 3975.
  
  
• You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer map, which has a scale of 2.5 inches to the mile.
  
  
• See our Maps page for additional resources.
  
  

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Politics and Governance

• This place was an ancient parish in the county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were eastablished.
  
  
• The parish was in the Marsh division of the ancient Calceworth Wapentake in the East Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
  
  
• Kelly's 1913 Directory of Lincolnshire places the parish in the South Lindsey division of the county.
  
  
• For today's district governance, see the East Lindsey District Council.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, the parish became part of the Spilsby Poor Law Union.
  
  
• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Alford petty sessional hearings.
  
  

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Population

Year	Inhabitants
1801	46
1831	54
1841	54
1871	54
1881	62
1891	41
1901	45
1911	48
1921	34
1931	34

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Schools

• The children of this parish attended school in South Ormsby.
  
  
• See our Schools page for more information on researching school records.
  
  

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