Croxton Local History Pack

• The Name.
• The Place.
• Population History.
• Entry from Kelly's Trade Directory for 1900.
• Holdings in North Lincolnshire Local Studies Library.
• References in the Star Newspaper Index.

The name

Known as Crochestune in 1086, Croxton can be interpreted as 'Croc's farmstead or village'.

More information can be found in:

• Cameron, Keith The Place-Names of Lincolnshire.
• Mills, A.D. A Dictionary of English Place Names.

The place

Croxton is a small village situated seven miles north east of Brigg. It is the site of a small rectangular earthwork of 2 ¾ aces known as Yarborough Camp where a hoard of fourth century Roman coins were found.

Population history

Entry from Kelly's Trade Directory for 1900

Croxton is a small parish, 3 miles south - west from Brocklesby station on the main line of the Great Central (late M.S. and L.) railway, 7 north - east from Brigg and 165 from London, in the North Lindsey division of the county, parts of Lindsey, east division of Yarborough wapentake, Glanford Brigg union, Brigg petty sessional division and county court district, rural deanery of Yarborough No. 1 archdeaconry of Stow and diocese of Lincoln. The church of St. John the Evangelist is a building of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle and an embattled western tower, with 8 pinnacles, containing one bell: the church was restored about 1878, at a cost of £1,300, when the doorway on the south side was built up and a porch erected on the north side: there are 90 sittings. The register dates from the year 1562. The living is a rectory, united to the vicarage of Ulceby, net yearly value from glebe £254, with residence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, and held since 1897 by the Rev. George Blinkhorn Assoc. K.C.L. who resides at Ulceby. Here is an elevation, called, from a large entrenchment on its summit, "Yarborough Camp." Roman coins have been found on the spot. The Earl of Yarborough P.C. is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is wold land; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats, but there is a considerable quantity of woodland. The area is 1,517 acres; rateable value, £3,772; the population in 1891 was 96.

Holdings in North Lincolnshire Local Studies Library

• Russell, Eleanor and Rex, C. Landscape changes in South Humberside. 1982.
• Russell, R.C. Three enclosures of Lord Yarborough's estate.

References in the Star Newspaper Index

• None.