Stenigot

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Stenigot
Lincolnshire
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St Nicholas' Church, Stenigot
Location
Grid reference: TF252808
Location: 53°18’36"N, 0°7’15"W
Data
Post town: Louth
Postcode: LN11
Dialling code: 01507
Local Government
Council: East Lindsey
Parliamentary
constituency:
Louth and Horncastle

Stenigot is a village in Lindsey, the northern part of Lincolnshire. It is in the Lincolnshire Wolds, about six miles south-west of Louth, and a mile south-east of the village of Donington on Bain. The wider civil parish includes the hamlet of Cold Harbour.[1]

The distinctive name 'Stenigot' is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as Stangehou. This is thought to be a variant of the Old English Staninga hoh, meaning 'spur of a hill' or 'the people at a stone'.[2]

The parish church, St Nicholas, dates from 1892. Built of red brick and limestone, with a 15th-century octagonal font. There is a monument to Sir John Guevara, died 1607, of white, grey and orange streaked alabaster and a black marble inscription plaque to Francis Velles de Guevara, died 1592.[3]

The village is probably best known for RAF Stenigot, a chain home high station during the Second World War[4] and later as a NATO ACE High station, with four tropospheric scatter parabolic dishes.[5]

Abandoned tropospheric scatter dishes
364-foot radar tower
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References

  1. Stenigot on Vision of Britain
  2. Ekwall, Eilert, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 4th edition, 1960. p. 441 ISBN 0198691033
  3. National Heritage List 1063700: St Nicholas, Stenigot (Grade II listing)
  4. National Monuments Record: No. 1309703 – Stenigot
  5. National Monuments Record: No. 1309788 – Stenigot