Normanby le Wold

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Normanby le Wold
Lincolnshire
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St Peter's church, Normanby le Wold
Location
Grid reference: TF122951
Location: 53°26’28"N, 0°18’40"W
Data
Post town: Market Rasen
Postcode: LN7
Local Government
Council: West Lindsey
Parliamentary
constituency:
Gainsborough

Normanby le Wold is a village in Lindsey, the northern part of Lincolnshire. As its name suggests, the village is in the beauteous Lincolnshire Wolds. It is found about five miles south of the nearest town, Caistor, and seventeen miles north-east of the county town, the City of Lincoln.[1] Close by, and sharing a civil parish, is Claxby by Normanby.

Lincolnshire's county top is here; known as Normanby Top, the highest point it marked by a trig pillar at a field boundary, at 551 feet above sea level. The wider area is known as Wolds Top.

History

The village had 37 households at the time of Domesday Book of 1086.[2]

Parish church

The parish church, St Peter, is built of ironstone, and dates from the early 13th century and the 14th century. It was restored in 1868 by James Fowler. The church is a Grade II* listed building.[3]

Both the vestry and chancel are 19th-century, and the font is 14th-century on a 19th-century base. In the south aisle there is a 16th-century gravestone, seen through a large quatrefoil.

St Peters church is part of the Walesby Group of Parishes which comprises, Brookenby (St Michael and All Angels), Claxby by Normanby (St Mary), Kirmond le Mire (St Martin), North Willingham (St Thomas), Stainton le Vale (St Andrew), Tealby (All Saints), Walesby (St Mary and All Saints).[4]

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