In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Owmby like this:

OWMBY, a hamlet in Searby parish, Lincoln; 4 miles N W by N of Caistor. Pop., 108. It ranks, in some respects, as a parish; and the living of it is a vicarage, .annexed to the vicarage of Searby, in the diocese of Lincoln.

Owmby through time

Owmby is now part of WEST LINDSEY District. Click here for graphs and data of how WEST LINDSEY has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Owmby itself, go to Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Owmby, in West Lindsey and Lincolnshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/24610

Date accessed: 08th April 2026


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