Fenton, Kesteven

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Fenton
Lincolnshire
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Village pond, Fenton
Location
Grid reference: SK880509
Location: 53°2’54"N, 0°41’18"W
Data
Post town: Newark
Postcode: NG23
Local Government
Council: South Kesteven
Parliamentary
constituency:
Sleaford and
North Hykeham

Fenton is a village in western Lincolnshire, within the Kesteven part of the county. It is fourteen miles south-west of the county town, the city of Lincoln, two miles north-east of the village of Claypole and a mile and a half off the A17 road.

The parish church is All Saints’ Church. It is a Grade-I listed building.[1] It has a crocketed spire and is mainly of Perpendicular and Decorated Gothic styles, but retains a Norman north arcade.[2] The chancel was rebuilt in 1838 and restored in 1875.[3]

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References

  1. National Heritage List 1062914: Church of All Saints
  2. Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull 1885, p. 391
  3. Cox, J. Charles (1916) Lincolnshire p. 125; Methuen & Co. Ltd