Carlton Scroop
| Carlton Scroop | |
| Lincolnshire | |
|---|---|
 Church of St Nicholas, Carlton Scroop | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SK949450 |
| Location: | 52°59’38"N, -0°35’23"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 304 (2011) |
| Post town: | Grantham |
| Postcode: | NG32 |
| Dialling code: | 01400 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | South Kesteven |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Sleaford and North Hykeham |
Carlton Scroop is a small village in Kesteven, the south-western part of Lincolnshire. It is six miles north-east of Kesteven's main market town, Grantham, four miles east of the village of Hougham. The A607 road to Lincoln passes through the centre of the village.
The population of the civil parish (including Normanton) at the 2011 census was 304
Parish church
The parish church, St Nicholas, is a mediæval building. Parts of the fabric are Norman, although the most obvious features are later Decorated Gothic. The base of the tower is of the 12th-century but the upper part was built in 1632, constructed after the former steeple collapsed.[1][2]
The east window, depicting two kneeling figures each holding a shield, is an example of 14th-century mediæval stained glass. Called the Newmarch window, it dates from 1310.
The church is a Grade I listed building.[3]
The village is part of the ecclesiastical parish of Carlton Scroop and Normanton on Cliffe, itself part of the Caythorpe Group of parishes in the Loveden Deanery of the Diocese of Lincoln.
History
The village is listed in the Domesday Book as "Carletune".
The village was once split in two by the Honington and Lincoln railway, opened in 1867, later part of the Great Northern Railway. The railway was closed during the Beeching cuts of 1965.[4]
A microwave tower formed part of a Cold War emergency microwave communications system, 'Backbone'.[5] A Cold War era bunker of the Royal Observer Corps was built in 1965 and abandoned in 1968, and is now demolished.[6]
About the village
Carlton Scroop is situated below the Lincoln Cliff, an escarpment edge that separates the Lincolnshire Wolds from the Vale of Trent. On the Cliff, a mile to the north, is the village of Normanton on Cliffe.
The Viking Way long distance footpath passes through the village.
A mast is situated just outside the village, part of the microwave telephone link from London to Edinburgh.[5]
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Carlton Scroop) |
- Viking Way, Long Distance Walkers Association
References
- ↑ National Monuments Record: No. 325873 – Church of St Nicholas
- ↑ Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, 1964; 1989 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09620-0
- ↑ National Heritage List 1062428: Church of St Nicholas (Grade I listing)
- ↑ National Monuments Record: No. 1365413 – Railway
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 National Monuments Record: No. 1310761 – Microwave tower
- ↑ National Monuments Record: No. 1411989 – ROC bunker