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Description

Beckingham, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, on the river Witham, 3 1/2 miles N of Claypole station on the G.N.R., and 5 E of Newark. The parish includes the hamlet of Sutton, and has a post office under Newark, which is the telegraph office ; money order office, Brant Broughton. Acreage, 1964; population of the civil parish, 282; of the ecclesiastical, with Stragglethorpe and Fenton, 431. The living is a rectory, united with the perpetual curacies of Stragglethorpe and Fenton, in the diocese of Lincoln; net yearly value, £430 with residence. The church, which is a stone building chiefly of the Perpendicular period, was restored in 1857-58, and again in 1888. There is a Wesleyan chapel.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5


Census

Below are links to all of the Beckingham census returns available online, with the dates the census' were taken
6th June 1841
30th March 1851
7th April 1861
2nd April 1871
3rd April 1881
5th April 1891
31st March 1901