Dunholme
Dunholme | |
Lincolnshire | |
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Church of St Chad, Dunholme | |
Location | |
Grid reference: | TF023792 |
Location: | 53°18’3"N, 0°27’59"W |
Data | |
Population: | 2,054 (2011) |
Post town: | Lincoln |
Postcode: | LN2 |
Local Government | |
Council: | West Lindsey |
Parliamentary constituency: |
Gainsborough |
Dunholme is a village in Lindsey, the northern part of Lincolnshire, on the A46 road five miles north-east of the county town, the City of Lincoln.
Dunholme has a post office and village shop, and St Chad's C of E Primary School on Ryland Road.
The parish church, St Chad, is a Grade I listed building, built in Early English Gothic style.[1] It contains a kneeling effigy to Robert Grantham (died 1616), and was restored in 1856 and 1892.[2]
RAF Dunholme Lodge airfield was used by RAF Bomber Command during the Second World War. It closed in 1964 and little remains; some of the site is now the William Farr School.
Every summer the village holds a village fate. The fate is held in the centre of the village near the church and involves a duck race alongside many other activities.
Outside links
("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Dunholme) |
References
- ↑ National Monuments Record: No. 349563 – St Chad, Dunholme
- ↑ Cox, J. Charles (1916) Lincolnshire p. 119; Methuen & Co. Ltd