Published and unpublished works relating to Sleaford history - a select bibliography.
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'An Act for making and maintaining a Navigation from Sleaford Castle Causeway, through the town of Sleaford.... along the course of Sleaford Mill Stream and Kyme Eau to the River Witham, at or near Chappel Hill.... and for making necessary cuts for better effecting the said navigation' [1792]

Atkin, Wendy J. 'All serving their country: Nurse Lucy Fathers and the Boer War memorial of Sleaford' in Soldiers of the Queen, 87 (Dec 1996), pp. 16-19

Atkin, Wendy J. ' "A most ingenious authress": Frances Brooke (1724-1789) and her Lincolnshire connections' in Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, 32 (1997), pp. 12-20. [Frances Brooke is buried in St Denys' Church, Sleaford]

Atkin, Wendy J. 'Aspects of the trade of licensed victualling in late-Georgian Sleaford 1784-1831' (University of Nottingham dissertation, Cert. Loc. Hist., 1990)

Atkin, Wendy J. 'Benjamin Cheales (1757-1824), attorney-at-law of Sleaford: work, role and status' (University of Hull dissertation, BA(Hons), 1994)

Atkin, Wendy J. 'The war memorials of St Denys' Church' in St Denys' Review (March 1994), pp. 8-10

Barrack, Doris. Changing aspects of leisure in the typical Lincolnshire market town of Sleaford during the period 1888-1939 (n.d.)

Bond, Wilfred. 'A dole cupboard at Sleaford Church, a note' in Associated Architectural & Archaeological Societies' Reports and Papers, Vol. 40, Pt 1 (1930), p. 30

Boon, C. et al (eds.) Monday is Market Day: Memories of Sleaford (Heritage Lincolnshire, Heckington, 1997)

Croft, Eric. Sleaford and District on Old Picture Postcards, Yesterday's Lincolnshire Series no. 12 (2003)

Davison, John. Characters and Events in the History of the Zion Chapel, Jermyn Street, Sleaford (1988)

Description of a Plan for a Junction Canal Between Grantham and Sleaford, to Connect the Staffordshire Iron Works, Potteries and the Whole Central Inland Navigation of England with the Sea At Boston... (Birmingham, 1833)

Edmonds, Kate & Venn, Elizabeth. A School Remembers, 1902-1977 [Kesteven and Sleaford High School for Girls] (1977)

Ellis, Charles W. R. (ed.) Mid-Victorian Sleaford 1851-1871 [Workers' Educational Association] (Lincolnshire Library Service, 1981)

Ellis, Charles W. R. Carre's Grammar School, Sleaford 1604-1954 (1954)

Elsdon, Sheila M. Old Sleaford Revealed: A Lincolnshire Settlement in Iron Age, Roman, Saxon and Medieval Times: Excavations 1882-1995, Nottingham Studies in Archaeology, 2 (Oxford, 1997)

Fawcett, T. A History of the Free Churches of Sleaford (1902)

Gostick, Leslie. Our River Slea (privately published, c.2000)

Handley, R. C. The Handley family of Newark and Sleaford, UK and Australasia (1992)

Hansard J. & L. (publishers) A true coppie of the Feoffment and Grant, made by that Worthie and Honble gentleman, Robert Carre, Esq, of certain landes in Gedney, for the maintenance of a school, and reliefe of the poore in Sleford, A.D. 1604, Sleaford Grammar School, founded by Robert Carre, A.D. 1604.... : Rules of the School, made and confirmed 1835 (1835)

Harris, Peter. Sleaford 2000, History Trail of Sleaford (Lincolnshire History Trails, 1, 2000) [video]

Hoare, Douglas. St. Denys' Church, Sleaford (Sleaford St Denys' PCC, 1988)

Holderness, T. The Roads We Use, Old Toll Bars Near Sleaford (Sleaford, c.1930s)

Hosford, W. H. Sleaford Congregational Church Centenary 1868-1968 (n.d.)

Hosford, W. H. 'The enclosure of Sleaford' in Lincolnshire Associated Architectural Societies Report and Papers (1958), pp. 83-90

Hosford, W. H. 'The manor of Sleaford in the thirteenth century' in Nottingham Medieval Studies, Vol. XII (1968), pp. 21-39

Howe, W. Norton. The Church of St Denys Sleaford, by Canon W. Norton Howe, revised by Rev P. E. Mann (Sleaford, 1961)

Hunt, William M. A History of the Slea Navigation (Open University, unpublished dissertation M.Phil, 1979)

Mahany, Christine. and Roffe, David. Sleaford, South Lincolnshire Archaeology, Vol. 3 (1979)

Moore, Maurice Peter. 'The Family of Carre of Sleaford' in Lincolnshire Associated Architectural Societies Report and Papers, Vol. VII, Part 1 (1863), 60-70

North Kesteven District Council. Cogglesford Mill (1992)

Old Sleaford Chapel Charity 1913: A Bill intituled an Act to confirm a scheme of the Charity Commissioners for the application or management of the Charity consisting of the Protestant Dissenting Chapel otherwise Providence Baptist Chapel in the parish of Old Sleaford in the County of Lincoln (HMSO, 1914)

Oliver, Rev. George. A History of the Holy Trinity Guild at Sleaford (1837)

Oliver, Rev. George. The Existing Remains of the Ancient Britons, Within a Small District Lying Between Lincoln and Sleaford (Uppingham, 1846

Our Lady of Good Counsel, Sleaford, 1888-1988 (1988)

Page, Christopher J. Sleaford: An Industrial History (SLHA, 1974)

Pawley, Dr Simon. The Book of Sleaford (1996)

Pawley, Dr Simon. Sleaford and the Slea (1990)

Pawley, Dr Simon. 'The author of Creasey's "History of Sleaford", 1825' in Lincolnshire Past and Present, 15 (Spring 1994), pp. 20-1

Pawley, Dr Simon. 'Democracy and proper drains: public health and landed influence in late nineteenth century Sleaford' in Lincolnshire Past and Present, 7 (Spring 1992), pp. 8-11

Pawley, Dr Simon. 'Grist to the mill: a new approach to the early history of Sleaford' in Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, 23 (1988), pp. 37-41

Pevsner, N., Harris, J. and Antram, N. The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire (1989), Sleaford pp. 649-57

Robinson, Peter. W. The First Two Hundred Years: A Brief History of Methodism in Sleaford (Sleaford, 1997)

Shepherdson, C. & Robinson, P. A List and Brief Details of Chapels in the Sleaford Circuit, Past and Present (Boston, 1998)

Sleaford Cricket Club. A Pride in Our Heritage, the History of Sleaford Cricket Club (n.d.)

Snow, Norman Edward. A History of the Parish Church of St. Denis [sic], New Sleaford (Sleaford, 1907)

Thomas, George William. 'On excavations in an Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Sleaford in Lincolnshire' in Archaeologia, 50 (1887)

Thornton, Peter. The William Alvey School, Sleaford, 1729-1998 (Sleaford, 1998)

Trimble, Gary. Archaeological Investigation of a Pipeline Along St Giles' Avenue, Sleaford, Lincolnshire (SSG96), Work Undertaken for Anglian Water Services Ltd, APS Report 16/97 (Archaeological Project Services, 1997)

Trollope, Ven. Edward. Sleaford and the Wapentakes of Flaxwell and Aswardhurn (1872), (facsimile reprint by Heritage Lincolnshire, Heckington, 1999)

Ward, A.D. Sleaford, A Lincolnshire Market Town (Leicester City Polytechnic, n.d.)

White, Andrew R. Six Lincolnshire Castles, a Visitor's Guide (Lincolnshire Museums, 1983) [Describes castles at Lincoln, Sleaford, Folkingham, Castle Bytham, Tattershall and Old Bolingbroke]

White, Andrew R. The Rise and Fall of the Sleaford Navigation (1791-1881): as seen through primary source documents (Andrew R. White, n.d.)

Worsencroft, Ken. Bygone Sleaford (Grantham, 1978)

Yerburgh, E. R. Some Notes on Our Family History (includes chapter on 'The Yerburghs of Cockerington, Frampton, Wyberton and Sleaford') (1912)

Yerburgh, Rev. Richard. Sketches Illustrative of the Topography of Old and New Sleaford (Creasey, Sleaford, 1825)