Heighington, Lincolnshire
| Heighington | |
| Lincolnshire | |
|---|---|
 Heighington's old post office | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TF030693 |
| Location: | 53°12’43"N, 0°27’27"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 2,918 (2001) |
| Post town: | Lincoln |
| Postcode: | LN4 |
| Dialling code: | 01522 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | North Kesteven |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Sleaford and North Hykeham |
Heighington is a village in Kesteven, the south-western part of Lincolnshire, four miles south-east of the county town, the City of Lincoln. Parts of Heighington are a conservation area.
The village has two pubs: the Butcher and Beast and the Turks Head, both on High Street.
The Peterborough to Lincoln railway line passes through the west of the village, and there used to be a station here.
In the 2001 the population of the parish was recorded as 2,918 in 1,203 households.
History
Heighington is not mentioned in the Domesday Book. The chapel may have been a chapel of ease or a field church. It is mentioned in a will of 1524.[1]
A clock was erected to serve as a Great War memorial on the tower of Heighington's endowed school in 1924.
In 1964, Heighington Railway station closed.[2]
Churches
The church in the village, St Thomas's, is a chapel of ease within the Parish of Washingborough, which is grouped also with Canwick.[3]
The building is of 12th-century origin, is Grade II listed,[4] and was restored in 1619 as a chapel by Thomas Garratt, a 'fen-adventurer' of the fen drainage scheme. Garratt gave lands for the support of the teaching of grammar and Latin and the reading of divine service within the chapel. This teaching took place until 1864-65, after which a new attached school house was built by Michael Drury, the older structure reserved for Church of England worship.[5][6] This grammar school was attached to the church until 1885, and later moved to the Thomas Garrett Arts, Crafts and Heritage Centre; it closed in 1976.[7]
In 1885 Kelly’s noted the presence of Wesleyan and Wesleyan Reform chapels;[8] a Grade II listed former Methodist chapel still exists now used as business premises.[9] Kelly's recorded that the parish of Washingborough, which included Heighington, had an 1881 population of 747, was of 2,147 acres, and had agricultural production of chiefly wheat, oats and barley.[8]
Sport
To the south of the village and east of the railway line is Bracken Hill Golf Club.[10]
Outside links
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References
- ↑ "St.Thomas,Heighington chapel". https://www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/59/. Retrieved 13 January 2019.
- ↑ "Heighington". http://www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thislocation=Heighington. Retrieved 14 January 2019.
- ↑ St Thomas, Heighington: The Washingborough Group
- ↑ National Heritage List 1360209: Chapel and attached school (Grade II listing)
- ↑ Cox, J. Charles (1916) Lincolnshire p. 164; Methuen & Co. Ltd.
- ↑ Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, 1964; 1989 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09620-0page 569
- ↑ "Lincolnshire Heritage Council". http://www.lincolnheritage.org/about/. Retrieved 10 April 2011.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull 1885, p. 473
- ↑ National Heritage List 1062547: Methodist Chapel and attached railings (Grade II listing)
- ↑ "Local greens". http://www.localgreens.com/central-england/lincolnshire/bracken-hill-golf-course-heighington.php. Retrieved 13 January 2019.
