Hundleby
| Hundleby | |
| Lincolnshire | |
|---|---|
 St Mary's Church, Hundleby | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TF388664 |
| Location: | 53°10’37"N, -0°4’33"E |
| Data | |
| Population: | 395 (2011) |
| Post town: | Spilsby |
| Postcode: | PE23 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | East Lindsey |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Louth and Horncastle |
Hundleby is a village in Lindsey, the northern part of Lincolnshire. It has become in effect a suburb of the market town of Spilsby.[1]
Hundleby is listed in the 1086 Domesday Book as "Hundelbi", with Ivo Tallboys (Ivo Tallebois) as lord of the manor.[2] This was long an agricultural area, a centre for sugar beet production.
The parish church, St Mary, is a 14th-century mediæval church was mostly torn down in 1854-55 and reconstructed using the original greenstone: only the base of the tower and nave remain of the former church. The church which is a Grade II listed building.[3]
Spilsby Union Workhouse was built in Hundleby in 1837, to designs by George Gilbert Scott.[4] After 1930 it became a Public Assistance Institution. In 1948 it was converted to the Gables Hospital providing geriatric care. It was eventually closed and demolished.
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References
- ↑ Information on Hundleby from GENUKI
- ↑ Hundleby in the Domesday Book
- ↑ National Heritage List 1063577: Church of St Mary (Grade II listing)
- ↑ National Monuments Record: No. 1430058 – Spilsby Union Workhouse