Cuxwold

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Cuxwold
Lincolnshire
St.Nicholas' church, Cuxwold, Lincs. - geograph.org.uk - 133366.jpg
Church of St Nicholas, Cuxwold
Location
Grid reference: TA172011
Location: 53°29’38"N, 0°14’3"W
Data
Post town: Market Rasen
Postcode: LN7
Local Government
Council: West Lindsey
Parliamentary
constituency:
Gainsborough

Cuxwold is a village in Lindsey, the northern part of Lincolnshire, a mile south of of Swallow (to whose civil parish it has been allocated) and north-east of Rothwell. It lies in the Lincolnshire Wolds, four miles east of Caistor and ten miles south-west of Grimsby.

The parish church, St Nicholas. Is of 11th-century origin but with an incorporated earlier Anglo-Saxon tower arch. It was considerably restored and rebuilt in 1860 by James Fowler.[1][2] The restoration was carried-out under instruction from Henry Thorold, who, in the 1870s, added a monument to his family within the church. The church is a Grade II* listed building.[3]

Within the village another notable building is Cuxwold Hall, built in 1860.[4]

Cuxwold was the location of an emergency landing ground for airplanes during the Second World War and is now the home of Grimsby Airfield.

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References

  1. Cox, J. Charles (1916) Lincolnshire p. 114; Methuen & Co. Ltd
  2. Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull 1885, p. 375
  3. National Heritage List 1165350: Church of St Nicholas (Grade II* listing)
  4. National Heritage List 1063506: Cuxwold Hall (Grade II listing)