Brocklesby
| Brocklesby | |
| Lincolnshire | |
|---|---|
 All Saints' Church, Brocklesby | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TA143112 |
| Location: | 53°35’7"N, 0°16’31"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Grimsby |
| Postcode: | DN41 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | West Lindsey |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Gainsborough |
Brocklesby is a village in Lindsey, the northern part of Lincolnshire. It is a mile south of Habrough and four miles south-west of the port of Immingham. Nearby is Humberside International Airport.
The 2001 Census recorded a population of 124.
The parish includes the settlement of Limber Parva (or Little Limber) which is a mile and a half to the south-west, and is the site of a deserted mediæval village, defined by earthworks and crop marks of crofts, hollow ways and rectilinear enclosures.[1]
Newsham Abbey was located to the north of the village in the hamlet of Newsham, now part of Brocklesby civil parish.[2][3]
Brocklesby once had its own railway station: the station, platform and buildings are now private property. The nearest railway station in current use is at Habrough.
Parish church
The parish church, All Saints, stands within the Brockleysby Park Estate. It is a Grade I listed building.[4]
The church holds memorials to the Pelham family, of which are the Earls of Yarborough, particularly Charles Pelham, Lord Worsley, who was killed during the First World War.
The parish is part of the 'Brocklesby Park' group of parishes in the Deanery of Yarborough.[5]
Brocklesby Hall
Brocklesby Hall is a large country house standing in the 27,000-acre Brocklesby Park Estate.
The house probably dates from the 16th century, but was altered before 1708 and remodelled circa 1730. It was severely damaged by fire in 1898, restored by the architect Sir Reginald Blomfield, and then reduced in size in the 20th century by the architect Claud Phillimore. It is built of brick in 3 storeys to a U-shaped floor plan with a 9-bay frontage. The 1898 fire and Phillimore's renovations destroyed most of the original interior features. It is nevertheless, a Grade I listed building.[6]
The Pelham family originally moved to Lincolnshire in 1565 and the property has descended in the family to Charles Pelham, the 8th and current Earl of Yarborough.
In the grounds of Brocklesby Park is the Pelham Mausoleum, built in 1787 by James Wyatt for Charles Anderson-Pelham (1749-1823).[7]
The estate is primarily agricultural with a substantial acreage of woodland. The 1000 acre Park and woodlands were laid out in the 1770s by Capability Brown for the Charles Anderson-Pelham, 1st Baron Yarborough and contains forty-three listed architectural features.[8]
The Holgate Monument, created in 1785 by James Wyatt, is a Grade I listed memorial to Charles Anderson-Pelham, 1st Baron Yarborough's friend George Holgate in the form of a triangular pedestal supported on three tortoises and topped by an urn.[9]
The Hunt kennels and house are Grade I listed, as is the Newsham Bridge and the Hermitage.
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Brocklesby) |
- Brocklesby, Lincolnshire: A Vision of Britain through Time
References
- ↑ National Monuments Record: No. 892592 – Little Limber
- ↑ A History of the County of Lincoln - Volume 2 pp 199-202: Houses of Premonstratensian Canons: Newsham Priory (Victoria County History)
- ↑ Information on Brocklesby from GENUKI
- ↑ National Heritage List 1165503: Church of All Saints
- ↑ "Our Parishes". Brocklesby park group. http://lincoln.ourchurchweb.org.uk/brocklesby/. Retrieved 22 October 2013.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1359800: Brocklesby Hall (Grade I listing)
- ↑ Pelham Mausoleum
- ↑ "Brocklesby Estate". http://www.brocklesby.co.uk/history. Retrieved 14 February 2014.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1063417: Holgate Monument (Scheduled ancient monument entry)
