Hundleby

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Hundleby
Lincolnshire
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St Mary's Church, Hundleby
Location
Grid reference: TF388664
Location: 53°10’37"N, 0°4’33"E
Data
Population: 395  (2011)
Post town: Spilsby
Postcode: PE23
Local Government
Council: East Lindsey
Parliamentary
constituency:
Louth and Horncastle

Hundleby is a village in Lindsey, the northern part of Lincolnshire. It has become in effect a suburb of the market town of Spilsby.[1]

Hundleby is listed in the 1086 Domesday Book as "Hundelbi", with Ivo Tallboys (Ivo Tallebois) as lord of the manor.[2] This was long an agricultural area, a centre for sugar beet production.

The parish church, St Mary, is a 14th-century mediæval church was mostly torn down in 1854-55 and reconstructed using the original greenstone: only the base of the tower and nave remain of the former church. The church which is a Grade II listed building.[3]

Spilsby Union Workhouse was built in Hundleby in 1837, to designs by George Gilbert Scott.[4] After 1930 it became a Public Assistance Institution. In 1948 it was converted to the Gables Hospital providing geriatric care. It was eventually closed and demolished.

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References

  1. Information on Hundleby  from GENUKI
  2. Hundleby in the Domesday Book
  3. National Heritage List 1063577: Church of St Mary (Grade II listing)
  4. National Monuments Record: No. 1430058 – Spilsby Union Workhouse