Kirkby, Lincolnshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Kirkby. You may be able to find further references to Kirkby in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place Type of entry Source
KIRKBY a village and a parish Imperial
Kirkby cum Osgodby parish Bartholomew

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Kirkby.

Place Type of entry Source
Kirkby village Bartholomew
Osgodby village Bartholomew

Travel writing

Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place Mentioned in Travel Writing Mentioned in Historical Gazetteer
Osgodby in Lindsey 2 2
Kingerby 0 2
North Owersby 0 4
West Rasen 0 3
Usselby 0 2
Thornton le Moor 0 2
Middle Rasen 0 3
Walshcroft 0 2
Claxby 0 2
Holton le Moor 0 3
Toft Next Newton 0 3
West Lindsey 0 1
Newton By Toft 0 2
South Kelsey 1 3
Market Rasen 1 4
Glentham 0 2
Moortown 0 2
Normanby le Wold 0 2
Walesby 0 2
Bishop Norton 0 3

Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for Kirkby. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
KIRKBY John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
KIRKBY CUM OSGODBY John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).

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  • Some names may derive from research by antiquarian writers such as William Camden and Thomas Pennant into the Roman, Saxon and medieval names of places. Their claims are not always supported by modern place-name researchers.
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