Horsington, Lincolnshire
| Horsington | |
| Lincolnshire | |
|---|---|
 Horsington road sign | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TF193687 |
| Location: | 53°12’9"N, 0°12’54"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 242 (2011) |
| Post town: | Woodhall Spa |
| Postcode: | LN10 |
| Dialling code: | 01526 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | East Lindsey |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Louth and Horncastle |
Horsington is a village in Lindsey, the northern part of Lincolnshire. It is on the B1190, five miles north of Woodhall Spa and five miles west of Horncastle. The parish includes the hamlet of Poolham.
The most prominent building in the village is the parish church, All Saints. From an earlier age there is a ruined 13th-century chapel at Poolham Hall.[1] Three cottages on the village's Main Street are Grade II listed buildings.
Parish church
The parish church, All Saints, was completely rebuilt In 1860 in red brick, the previous structure having been thatched.[2] The church of today is a Grade II listed building.[3]
At that time the living of Horsington was in the gift of Magdelen College, Oxford, as principal landowner and the village's Lords of the Manor. Magdelen possibly provided the church organ.[4] The same year the College founded the village National School, and subscribed to its support. Kelly's Directory also notes the existence of a Wesleyan Chapel.[5]
History
In 1872 White's Directory reported that Horsington had a population of 397 within a parish of 1,700 acres that extends to Hare Booth five miles south on the River Witham and includes farms and a wood. Stixwould railway station was four miles to the east.
The 1860 brick built All Saints Church was a replacement for the earlier thatched church. A significant area of parish land was part of the manorial land held by Magdalen College, Oxford, who held the patronage for the parish. The incumbency was a rectory that included a residence which was built in 1857. A 1760 enclosure of parish land provided 290 acres of glebe land—an area of land used to support a parish priest—in lieu of tithes [tax income from parishioners derived from their profit on sales, or extraction of produce and animals, typically to the tenth part], with a further 14 acres in South Somercotes. Over 5 acres of land had been allotted to the ecclesiastical parish to service church upkeep "from time immemorial". About a mile from the church was recorded a burial ground of about one acre, which was purchased by parishioners 100 years previously. The Wesleyans and Independent churches had each a chapel at Horsington. A National School attended by 60 children was built in 1861. Professions and trades listed in 1872 included the rector, a parish clerk, a schoolmaster, a farm bailiff, a blacksmith, a dressmaker, a shoemaker, two shopkeepers, a coal dealer, a bricklayer, a carpenter, a wheelwright, a miller, a beer retailer, the licensed victualler of the Baronet Inn, and thirteen farmers, one of whom was also a miller.[6]
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References
- ↑ National Heritage List 1359916: Ruined Chapel at Poolham Hall (Grade II listing)
- ↑ Information on Horsington, Lincolnshire from GENUKI
- ↑ National Heritage List 1063154: Church of All Saints, Horsington (Grade II listing)
- ↑ Pacey, Robert; Popkin, Michael (1997) The organs of Oxford: an illustrated guide to the organs of the University and City of Oxford Positif Press. ISBN 0906894255. Retrieved 22 June 2011
- ↑ Kellys Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull 1885, p. 490
- ↑ White, William (1872), Whites Directory of Lincolnshire, p.331
