“AYLESBY is a village and parish 5½ miles West South West of Grimsby”
The village is recorded in the Domesday book from 1086 as Alesbi and has been a settlement ever since. The centre of the village holds the Church of St Lawrence, and in 1925 a plot of land just to the edge of the village became the site of the new Memorial Cottages.
We’ve looked back at the history of Aylesby and compiled our own booklet laying out history and stories of the village and area over the past couple of hundred years. Scroll down to view it or jump straight to the .pdf here.
200+ years of change
1801 – the population was 90
1831 – the population was 144
1841 – the population was 201
1842 – the population was 144 and 2110 acres
AYLESBY is a village and parish 5½ miles W.S.W. of Grimsby containing 144 souls and 2110 acres. The Rev. T.T. Drake is Lord of the Manor, owner of most of the soil, impropriator, and patron of the Church (St. Lawrence) which is a perpetual curacy, now valued at £73 and enjoyed by the Rev. John Drake, for whom the Rev. A. Creighton officiates. Here is a water corn-mill, and an excellent gravel pit, and the Tyrwhitt family had formerly a seat here.
1849 – the population was 201 and 2110 acres
1855 – the population was 172 and 2110 acres
1863 – the population was 130 and 2110 acres
1871 – the population was 121
1881 – the population was 112
1885 – the population was 121 and 2110 acres
1891 – the population was 120
1911 – the population was 128
1931 – the population was 132 and 2134 acres
2001 – the population was 135
2011 – the population was 155
2021 – the population is likely to be…. ?
Explore a much wider timeline of the Memorial Cottages here.
View our Brief History of Aylesby document below. Thank you to our volunteer Doreen for doing the original research.