Belleau
| Belleau | |
| Lincolnshire | |
|---|---|
 Church of St John Baptist, Belleau | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TF402786 |
| Location: | 53°17’9"N, 0°6’7"E |
| Data | |
| Population: | 18 (2001) |
| Post town: | Alford |
| Postcode: | LN13 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | East Lindsey |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Louth and Horncastle |
Belleau is a hamlet in Lindsey, the northern part of Lincolnshire. It is situated about seven miles south-east of Louth, and four miles north-west of Alford. Belleau parish includes the hamlet of Claythorpe.
The 2001 Census recorded a parish population of 18 in 8 households. It was not separately counted at the 2011 census.
The village name is taken from the spring of the rivulet called the Eau which rises in the village,[1] and later enters the fenland in the east of the county as the 'Great Eau', which flows to the sea at Saltfleet. The name 'Eau' is the Old English ea meaning simply 'river', with a later letter added as if it were the French for 'water': several fenland watercourses bear the name 'ea' or 'eau' for the same reason.
The parish church, St John the Baptist, is a Grade II listed building.[2] The church was almost entirely rebuilt in 1862.
Near the church are the remains of an old manor house, the former home of the Earls of Lindsey.[1][3] Other listed buildings include a pigeoncote[4] and barn[5] at Manor Farm.
The Puritan leader Henry Vane the Younger was from Belleau.
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Belleau) |
- "History of Belleau, in East Lindsey and Lincolnshire". A Vision of Britain through Time.. GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth. http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/11551. Retrieved 5 October 2013.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Cox, J. Charles (1916) Lincolnshire pp. 58-59; Methuen & Co. Ltd
- ↑ National Heritage List 1063630: Church of St John the Baptist (Grade II listing)
- ↑ Information on Belleau from GENUKI
- ↑ National Heritage List 1063631: Pigeoncote at Manor Farm
- ↑ National Heritage List 1063632: Barn at Manor Farm
