Canwick

Canwick
Lincolnshire
Church of All Saints, Canwick
Location
Grid reference:	SK984695
Location:	53°12’49"N, -0°31’38"W
Data
Population:	324  (2011)
Post town:	Lincoln
Postcode:	LN4
Local Government
Council:	North Kesteven
Parliamentary constituency:	Sleaford and North Hykeham

Canwick is a village in Kesteven, the south-western part of Lincolnshire, standing a mile south of the county town, the City of Lincoln.

The parish population of at the 2011 census was recorded as 324.

The village overlooks the Witham Valley, where the River Witham follows an ice-age cut through the Jurassic limestone ridge which forms the spine of the county, the @Lincoln Edge.

Parish church

The parish church, All Saints, is a Saxon-era foundation, but was significantly improved by the same Norman bishops who built Lincoln Cathedral. It is a Grade I listed building.

The church is built on a Roman tesselated pavement, and a coin of the first Christian Emperor, Constantine I, has been found in the churchyard. The church patronage is held by the Mercers' Company, oldest of the Livery Companies of the City of London.

History

The remains of a Roman villa have been found near Canwick.

The village has been continuously occupied since Anglo-Saxon times and its name is of that age, derived apparently from Cannan wic meaning "Canna’s Farm" or "Canna’s Place".

Canwick Hall was the seat of the Sibthorp family from the 17th to the 20th century, with the present structure being erected in 1810. Family members included the botanist John Sibthorp and several MPs. These included the notoriously bombastic Colonel Sibthorp: having already angered Queen Victoria by his opposition to an allowance for her consort Prince Albert, he went on to declare that the Prince's Great Exhibition project would bring the plague to England. The Hall was later home of Arthur Foljambe, 2nd Earl of Liverpool from 1939 to his death there in 1941.

New housing development took place in Canwick during the 1960s and the 2001 census records 339 inhabitants and 150 households.

Outside links

("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Canwick)

• Information on Canwick  from GENUKI
• Parish Council
• Canwick village
• All Saints Church, Canwick
• Canwick in the Domesday Book