Rippingale
| Rippingale | |
| Lincolnshire | |
|---|---|
 St Andrew's Church, Rippingale | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TF098278 |
| Location: | 52°50’13"N, 0°22’15"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 929 (2011) |
| Post town: | Bourne |
| Postcode: | PE10 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | South Kesteven |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Grantham and Stamford |
Rippingale is a village in Kesteven, the south-western part of Lincolnshire, sitting beside the A15 about five miles north of Bourne.
The population of the civil parish was 929 at the 2011 census.
Church
The parish church, St Andrew's, dates from the thirteenth and fourteenth century, though the tower is a century later.[1] In the churchyard once stood a weeping ash, Fraxinus excelsior 'Pendula' – a tree rare for Britain. It survived for a century until 2002 when, having died, it was felled.
Rippingale is part of the Ringstone in Aveland group of parishes, in the Aveland Deanery of the Diocese of Lincoln.
About the village
The village public house is The Bull Inn.
A railway station, Rippingale Station, opened in 1871 on a line between Bourne and Sleaford. It closed for freight in 1964. Regular passenger services ran from 1872 to 1930.
Rippingale falls within the drainage area of the Black Sluice Internal Drainage Board.[2]
South of the village is the site of Ringstone, a lost village, which dates from before the Norman conquest and which survived into the 19th century as Ringstone Hall (at TF094270).[3]
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Rippingale) |
References
- ↑ National Monuments Record: No. 348371 – Church
- ↑ "Black Sluice IDB". http://www.blacksluiceidb.gov.uk/.
- ↑ National Monuments Record: No. 348366 – Deserted Mediæval village at Ringstone
