Nettleham
| Nettleham | |
| Lincolnshire | |
|---|---|
 All Saints' Church, Nettleham | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TF008754 |
| Location: | 53°15’58"N, 0°29’16"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 3,437 (2011) |
| Post town: | Lincoln |
| Postcode: | LN2 |
| Dialling code: | 01522 & 01673 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | West Lindsey |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Gainsborough |
Nettleham is a large village within Lindsey, the northern part of Lincolnshire, four miles north-east of the City of Lincoln between the A46 and A158 roads.
The population of the civil parish was 3,437 at the 2011 census.
History
The now-demolished Bishop's Manor House at Nettleham was the property of Queen Edith of Wessex, wife of Edward the Confessor and later of the Empress Matilda, daughter and rightful heir of King Henry I, before it passed into the possession of the Bishops of Lincoln. The bishops enlarged it to create a Bishop's Palace appropriate to one of the country's most important bishoprics. On 7 February 1301, King Edward I was staying in the Bishop's Palace when he created his son Edward (later King Edward II) as the first Prince of Wales.
The building was damaged during the Lincolnshire Rising of 1536 and completely demolished by 1650. Only traces of foundations remaining on the site now called Bishop's Palace Field.[1]
The parish church, All Saints, dates from the Anglo-Saxon period, with mediæval and 19th century additions. It is now in the benefice of Nettleham with Riseholme and Grange de Lings.[2]
Within the church's graveyard is a headstone in memory of Thomas Gardiner, a post-boy murdered hereabouts by two highway robbers in January 1733. The inscription declares he was 'barbarously murdered' aged 19. The robbers - two brothers by the name of Hallam - committed another murder near Faldingworth before being arrested. They were convicted of murder at Lincoln and executed at the site of their crimes. (Thomas Gardiner's headstone declares he was killed on 3 January 1732 since at the time Britain used the Julian Calendar.)[3][4]
The Royal Society for Nature Conservation had been based in Nettleham but moved to Newark-on-Trent in 1999. The site became the home of the WATCH Trust for Environmental Conservation, but this also moved to Newark a few years ago.[5]
About the village
The centre of the village is a conservation area. Large modern housing estates surround the old village centre. Nettleham is also the location of the Lincolnshire Police headquarters to the west of the village near the A46. It was opened by the Queen in 1980.
Nettleham has four pubs: the Black Horse on Chapel Lane, the Plough on Church Street, the Brown Cow on Lincoln Road, and the White Hart on the High Street.
There is an oil well in the village, owned by Star Energy, north of the A158 bypass, which has been producing since 1985.
Sport
- Football: Nettleham F.C.
- Cricket: Nettleham Cricket Club
- Both teams play their home fixtures at Mulsanne Park
- Tennis: Nettleham Tennis Club
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Nettleham) |
- All Saints, Nettleham
- Nettleham Village
- Nettleham medical practice
- CE Junior school
- Nettleham Cricket Club
- Nettleham Tennis Cclub
References
- ↑ National Monuments Record: No. 349523 – Bishops Manor
- ↑ All Saints Nettleham Parish Church
- ↑ Urban, Sylvanus. The Gentleman's Magazine: Or, Monthly Intelligencer. For the Year 1733. Volume III. p.43, 99, 154
- ↑ Codd, Daniel (2013). Tales from the Gibbet Post (The Jeering of Horns in Lincoln). Amazon Media EU S.à r.l. Kindle Edition. ASIN: B00D2B8OWA
- ↑ Wildlife WATCH
- Nettleham in the Domesday Book
