Carlby

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Carlby
Lincolnshire
Carlby, with Church of St Stephen - geograph.org.uk - 114509.jpg
Carlby
Location
Grid reference: TF050140
Location: 52°42’49"N, 0°26’46"W
Data
Local Government
Council: South Kesteven

Carlby is a small village in Kesteven, the south-western part of Lincolnshire. The village is in Kesteven's Ness Wapentake, four miles south of Bourne on the A6121 near the border of Rutland, which for a mile or so here is marked by the River West Glen. Less than a mile to the south, in Rutland, is a similarly sized village, Essendine.

The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 542.

Church

The parish church, St Stephen,[1] The current building dates from 1134.[1][2]

The ecclesiastical parish is a cross-border one, named Ryhall with Essendine and Carlby, part of the Rutland Deanery of the Diocese of Peterborough.[3]

Carlby village sign

Society and leisure

The village has a playing field and a children's recreational area.

In 1986 the villagers replaced the wooden village hall with a brick structure.

Outside links

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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 White, William (1882). History, gazetteer, and directory, of Lincolnshire, and the city & diocese of Lincoln (4 ed.). p. 232. 
  2. National Monuments Record: No. 348324 – Church of St Stephen
  3. Find a Church: Carlby: Diocese of Peterborough