Calceby
| Calceby | |
| Lincolnshire | |
|---|---|
 Ruins of St Andrew's Church, Calceby | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TF389755 |
| Location: | 53°15’32"N, -0°4’55"E |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Alford |
| Postcode: | LN13 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | East Lindsey |
Calceby is a small village in Lindsey, the northern part of Lincolnshire. It is about four miles west of the market town of Alford.
Once much larger, Calceby is recorded in the Domesday Book as "Calesbi". The Lord of the Manor in 1086 was Earl Hugh of Chester.[1] By the early seventeenth century, the conversion of agriculture from corn to pasture had begun a process of depopulation of the parish.
In 1638 the vicar said that his meagre income from tithes (£13 16s 6d per annum) could only be increased if the village were to be repopulated.[2] The parish church of St Andrew is now in ruins, the last service to take place there being in 1692.[3] Maurice Beresford included Calceby in his "Lost Villages of England".[4]
Calceby Beck and Spring are the source of the Great Eau, and are part of the local network of Chalk Streams.[5][6]
Calceby Marsh has been designated a 'Site of Special Scientific Interest' as "an outstanding example of base-rich marsh". The site consists of three areas of marshland, each differing slightly in species composition and surrounded by grassland of value to breeding snipe and lapwing.[7] The marsh is owned by the Diocese of Lincoln [8]
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References
- ↑ Calceby in the Domesday Book
- ↑ Hill, Christopher (1956). Economic Problems of the Church (1968 ed.). London: Panther. p. 82.
- ↑ "Lincolnshire Wolds:Calceby". Lincolnshire Wolds. http://www.lincolnshirewolds.info/calceby/index.html. Retrieved 5 May 2011.
- ↑ Hill, ibid: Beresford (1954) p57
- ↑ Calceby Beck, South Thoresby: Lincolnshire Chalk Streams Project
- ↑ The Lincolnshire Chalk Streams Project: Lincolnshire Wolds Countryside Service
- ↑ SSSI listing and designation for Calceby Marsh
- ↑ "Hidden Glebe". https://beatingtheboundshome.wpcomstaging.com/2020/02/19/hidden-glebe/.