Manby

Manby
Lincolnshire
Guy Gibson Hall, Manby
Location
Grid reference:	TF398866
Location:	53°21’30"N, -0°6’1"E
Data
Post town:	Louth
Postcode:	LN11
Dialling code:	01507
Local Government
Council:	East Lindsey
Parliamentary constituency:	Louth and Horncastle

Manby is a village in Lindsey, the northern part of Lincolnshire. It is found about five miles east of Louth.

The village pub is the Lancaster Inn (formerly the Manby Arms). Manby also has a post office, a primary school, two village shops, and an Italian restaurant, also in the conjoined village of Grimoldby, separated from Manby by the B1200 road.

The local council is based in the village.

Church

The parish church, St Mary's, is of the late fifteenth century perpendicular style. A late Anglo-Saxon slab discovered during Victorian restoration work suggests the Church may occupy the site of an earlier building. The churchyard contains many war and service graves for British, Commonwealth and Polish airmen.

RAF Manby

Forces Graveyard, St Mary's churchyard

RAF Manby was situated near the village between 1938 and 1974. Houses in Manby were built for RAF personnel, with village streets named after aeroplanes. In the late 1980s the entire pre-war Married Quarter estate Carlton Park was sold to a Roger Byron-Collins company.

The airfield sold for commercial use. It is now a business park, and the former airfield has been returned to agriculture with an intensive cattle-fattening plant. The headquarters of East Lindsey District Council occupies one of the buildings on the site, and Regents Academy also are based at the park.

Society

• Scouts: 1st Manby Scouts; one of only two scout groups in the area to include all scouting sections: Beavers, Cubs, Scouts and Explorers.

Outside links

("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Manby)

• National Monuments Record: No. 1402569 – Manby Airfield
• RAF Manby: Controltowers.co.uk