Laughton

Census

• The parish was in the Aslackby sub-district of the Bourne 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 here was in ruins by the beginning of the 19th century. White's 1842 Directory refers to this place as a "small churchless parish".
  
  
• The remains of the churchyard may still be traced.
  
  
• The inhabitants of this parish attended church in Folkingham parish.
  
  

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Church Records

• There are no parish registers for Laughton. Check the registers of adjoining parishes, starting with Folkingham. Sometime prior to 1838 the vicarage was merged with the rectory at Folkingham.
  
  
• The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Aveland and Ness 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 Aslackby sub-district of the Bourne Registration District.
  
  
• Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which began in July, 1837.
  
  

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Description and Travel

This village and parish lies 8 miles north of Bourne, south of Sleaford on the A15 trunk road. Aslackby parish lies to the south, Folkingham to the north, and Sempringham to the east. The parish covers 843 acres.

The centre of Laughton is 1.5 miles south of Folkingham. If you are planning a visit:

• The village is too small to appear on many modern maps.
  
  
• Rodney BURTON provides this rural scene on Geo-graph.
  
  
• See our touring page for visitor services.
  
  

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Maps

• The national grid reference is TF 0731.
  
  
• You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer #248 map, which has a scale of 2.5 inches to the mile.
  
  
• See our Maps page for additional resources.
  
  

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Names, Geographical

• In the 1086 Domesday Book, the village name is rendered as Loctone, from the Old English loc+tun meaning "enclosure that can be locked".
  [A. D. Mills, "A Dictionary of English Place-Names," Oxford University Press, 1991].
  
  

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Politics and Governance

• This place was an ancient parish in Lincoln county and became a modern Civil parish when those were established.
  
  
• The parish was in the ancient Aveland Wapentake in the South Kesteven district in the parts of Kesteven.
  
  
• For today's district governance, contact the South Kesteven District Council.
  
  
• In 1931 this Civil Parish was abolished and merged into surrounding Civil Parishes.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act reforms, the parish became part of the Bourne Poor Law Union.
  
  

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Population

Year	Inhabitants
1801	29
1831	75
1841	73
1871	75
1891	78
1911	70

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Schools

• The author of this web page could find no record of a school in this parish.
  
  
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.
  
  

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